working HD gives me "invalid system disk" error in new machine??

Hi all,

I just removed 2 HD's from working win98 machines, and tried putting
them in a new tower.. I thought it would simply reread and update the
data base and drivers of the new box.. is this not right?

I am putting these drives in one at a time, and I get the same error
on both drives. The system I am putting them into is an older Aladdin
box with a 350mhz intl processor, 128M RAM, I think it's a Pentium II
motherboard.. ? but not sure.

The original HD is giving lots of odd errors, and I'm pretty sure it's
about to die, I was just trying to replace it with one that would give
it some more life.

I have not tried fdisking and formatting, I was hoping to be able to
save all the stuff already on the drives..

Is what I thought would happen feasible?

thanks,
niteowl

Means one of two things.
Tower PC cannot locate HD that is active
OR
Tower PC cannot locate Partition boot record.

Either way, its a bios translation difference between the two PCs involved
of the HD.

There's a fix, but not using current HD installation as is or its filesystem
modfication. Its called imaging to alternate common media to both PCs.
"niteowl" wrote in message
...
Hi all,

I just removed 2 HD's from working win98 machines, and tried putting
them in a new tower.. I thought it would simply reread and update the
data base and drivers of the new box.. is this not right?

I am putting these drives in one at a time, and I get the same error
on both drives. The system I am putting them into is an older Aladdin
box with a 350mhz intl processor, 128M RAM, I think it's a Pentium II
motherboard.. ? but not sure.

The original HD is giving lots of odd errors, and I'm pretty sure it's
about to die, I was just trying to replace it with one that would give
it some more life.

I have not tried fdisking and formatting, I was hoping to be able to
save all the stuff already on the drives..

Is what I thought would happen feasible?

thanks,
niteowl

thanks, I ended up fdisking and reformatting and they both worked
fine.. thanks for the info, will know for next time..

niteowl

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 17:21:00 -0400, "Lil' Dave"
wrote:

Means one of two things.
Tower PC cannot locate HD that is active
OR
Tower PC cannot locate Partition boot record.

Either way, its a bios translation difference between the two PCs involved
of the HD.

There's a fix, but not using current HD installation as is or its filesystem
modfication. Its called imaging to alternate common media to both PCs.
"niteowl" wrote in message
.. .
Hi all,

I just removed 2 HD's from working win98 machines, and tried putting
them in a new tower.. I thought it would simply reread and update the
data base and drivers of the new box.. is this not right?

I am putting these drives in one at a time, and I get the same error
on both drives. The system I am putting them into is an older Aladdin
box with a 350mhz intl processor, 128M RAM, I think it's a Pentium II
motherboard.. ? but not sure.

The original HD is giving lots of odd errors, and I'm pretty sure it's
about to die, I was just trying to replace it with one that would give
it some more life.

I have not tried fdisking and formatting, I was hoping to be able to
save all the stuff already on the drives..

Is what I thought would happen feasible?

thanks,
niteowl