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Old May 19th 06, 04:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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I installed a formatted Hard Drive in my computer and attempted to boot up
with a floppy. In fact, I attempted to boot up with 3 different floppies
which I had downloaded from the internet. In each case I received the error
message, "Invalid System Disk. " I tried changing the order of boot up in
the BIOS, but that did help.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.


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Old May 19th 06, 05:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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In most cases, what you download from the Internet is a "boot floppy
diskmaker"....a program that will create a boot floppy when you run it. Do
not download the boot disk maker to the floppy disk; download it to the
hard drive of any working computer, then run it ad follow the instructions
to create a boot floppy disk. When done, take the boot floppy to your
computer and boot with it.
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Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+


"Abe" wrote in message
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I installed a formatted Hard Drive in my computer and attempted to boot up
with a floppy. In fact, I attempted to boot up with 3 different floppies
which I had downloaded from the internet. In each case I received the

error
message, "Invalid System Disk. " I tried changing the order of boot up in
the BIOS, but that did help.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.



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Old May 19th 06, 07:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Thanks for the reply. That is just what I did, and despite that got
the error message when attempting to boot up.

On Fri, 19 May 2006 12:26:51 -0400, "glee"
wrote:

In most cases, what you download from the Internet is a "boot floppy
diskmaker"....a program that will create a boot floppy when you run it. Do
not download the boot disk maker to the floppy disk; download it to the
hard drive of any working computer, then run it ad follow the instructions
to create a boot floppy disk. When done, take the boot floppy to your
computer and boot with it.

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Old May 19th 06, 07:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Use the machine you are posting with to make a new floppy boot disk using
the Fat32ebd.exe file located on the W98 CD: tools/mtsutil/fat32ebd. In
the BIOS, make sure the floppy drive is listed as the first boot device.

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"Abe" wrote in message
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I installed a formatted Hard Drive in my computer and attempted to boot up
with a floppy. In fact, I attempted to boot up with 3 different floppies
which I had downloaded from the internet. In each case I received the
error message, "Invalid System Disk. " I tried changing the order of boot
up in the BIOS, but that did help.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.



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Old May 19th 06, 10:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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You need to determine whether the message is referring to the hard drive
(which you know doesn't have an OS) or the floppy, which should be OK but
might not be. Does the message change if there's no floppy disk in the
drive at all? That may tell you whether the system really is trying to boot
from floppy. Try disconnecting the new hard drive - does the message change.
Can you tell that the floppy is being accessed by the lights that flash
during booting?
If it isn't using the floppy then perhaps the BIOS boot sequence isn't set
correctly, or perhaps the BIOS isn't seeing the floppy at all for some
reason.
If it is trying to boot from the floppy but failing, and if you are quite
sure the boot disk has been set up correctly, then either the floppy drive
or its cable is faulty, or the BIOS is configured for a different type of
floppy drive.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Abe" wrote in message
news:lnlbg.10$nA2.1@trndny01...
I installed a formatted Hard Drive in my computer and attempted to boot up
with a floppy. In fact, I attempted to boot up with 3 different floppies
which I had downloaded from the internet. In each case I received the
error message, "Invalid System Disk. " I tried changing the order of boot
up in the BIOS, but that did help.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.



 




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