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badandy
June 14th, 2004, 07:02 PM
i have a laptop with windows 98 on it but when i try to start it says "Invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key" i have tried using boot disks i got from a website http://files.frashii.com/~bootdisk/ffiles101/ but when i put them in the same message shows up. i cant get it to go any farther then that. can anyone help me?:upset:
degsy
June 14th, 2004, 07:14 PM
Welcome :)
When you download one of those files to your PC you then have to run it so that it will create the Startup Disk.
badandy
June 14th, 2004, 07:49 PM
i know how to create the disks and i made a few of them but they dont do anything when i put them in my laptop. i dont know what the problem is
renegade600
June 14th, 2004, 08:06 PM
what does your bios say about your harddrive. Did you receive any error messages right before the problem started? Did the computer seemed slow or hotter than normal?
badandy
June 14th, 2004, 08:14 PM
im not that good with computers...whats a bios and how do you get it to say somthing abt the hard drive? i dont remember if there was any error message or if it was hot. the problem started a long time ago and i gave up on it until now.
renegade600
June 14th, 2004, 08:23 PM
im not that good with computers...whats a bios and how do you get it to say somthing abt the hard drive? i dont remember if there was any error message or if it was hot. the problem started a long time ago and i gave up on it until now.
as soon as you turn on the computer, it should say to press a certain key to enter setup. Immediately press whatever key it says.
badandy
June 14th, 2004, 08:29 PM
okay i can get into the setup but what am i looking for in here?
renegade600
June 14th, 2004, 08:36 PM
okay i can get into the setup but what am i looking for in here?
All you need to do is see if it is recognizing your harddrive, it will give the harddrive size and other info about it. I do not know your bios so that is the best I can do.
badandy
June 15th, 2004, 06:32 AM
okay well i eventually fixed my frist problem with the windows boot disks but now i have another problem. when i start my computer w/o a boot disk it starts to open windows but then it just goes to dos mode. do i need to reinstall windows 98?