Windows 95- Invalid System Disk!!

KDED123 · #1 September 8th, 2005, 01:35 AM

AHH I have the same problem as you!!! I just got a laptop from my uncle and its kinda old. but anyway, i was trying to delete some of his stuff off of it and restarted and yeah now i cant get on because it keeps saying invalid system disk!!! Um so do you know how to do it yet or if you do tell me because i feel really dumb right now!!!
~katy

KDED123 · #2 September 8th, 2005, 03:12 AM

Oh and also I tried to reinstall Windows 95 and nothing happened...so yeah just fyi

anyway thats all for now.

**Murray S.** · #3 September 8th, 2005, 03:14 AM

Howdy and welcome to CTH:

I split your thread from the other as it is not kosher to hijack someone else's and it make giving fixes a lot less confusing!!

I understand you tried to re-install Win95.. Can you step me through the procedure you used??

Murray

KDED123 · #4 September 10th, 2005, 12:44 AM

Okay well today my dad brought a windows 95 disk home, and yesterday or something i tried a CD. so the disk got me out of the invalid system disk error, but now its a white screen that says "Runtime error 104 at 0000:0521 A:\>" !!! so yeah at least its one step closer?! anyway thanks for giving me advice, because i realllllly need it right now! ~katy

**Murray S.** · #5 September 10th, 2005, 01:18 AM

Well, Win95 cd's are NOT self-booting..

What steps have you taken thus far to get 95 installed ??

Murray

KDED123 · #6 September 12th, 2005, 03:55 AM

Well basically I just put the disk in and turned the power on... there's probably more I have to do, huh? Oh by the way sorry I replied to this message and didn't just start one of my own...I didn't realize that it would delete the other message...anyway thanks for your help.

**Murray S.** · #7 September 12th, 2005, 05:19 AM

It didn't delete it.. I split yours from their's (gave you your own thread)..

You are going to need a boot floppy to get things started.. You can get a Win98SE OEM boot floppy from www.bootdisk.com

Download the self-extracting file to your computer.. Now, get a clean formatted floppy and put it in the a: drive.. Double click the file you downloaded and let the program extract the bootup files to the floppy..

Murray

KDED123 · #8 September 14th, 2005, 04:52 AM

Okay I did that... and I put the disk in and I got all the way to "Preparing to start your computer...this may take a few minutes...please wait etc." and anyway how long should I be waiting for that screen? There's a place where I can type- should I type something there? Thanks-Katy

**Murf** · #9 September 14th, 2005, 05:04 AM

Are you at the A:/> prompt where the cursor is flashing? If you as it booted the screen should of told you what drive letter it assigned to your CDROM. Probably D: Do you remember seeing that?

KDED123 · #10 September 14th, 2005, 02:33 PM

Okay it said that the diagnostic tools were sent to drive d, but i'm booting the computer from the A drive... but yeah I am at the A prompt where the cursor is flashing...so yeah thanks for the help! Katy

**Murray S.** · #11 September 14th, 2005, 03:08 PM

The message you are getting is one you should get.. Your cd drive will now be e: drive..

Put the windows cd into the drive, at the a:\ prompt type "e:" (no quotes).. the drive prompt will change from a: to e:.. type in setup and let Windows do its thing!!

Murray

KDED123 · #12 September 15th, 2005, 03:56 AM

Okay ANOTHER problem... Okay I went all the way to Win98 setup and then a message came up that said "Already operating system instead-can't be upgraded by this version of setup." ... do I have the wrong win98 cd? oh by the way the message number was SUO168 ... should I try win95? the only problem is that I don't think I have a win95 cd... anyway thanks for all your help
Katy

**Murray S.** · #13 September 15th, 2005, 03:58 AM

1: Is Win95 still on the computer??

2: Is ANY operating system on the computer??

3: Is the Win98 cd you are trying to use a full install or upgrade (it will say on the cd) ??

Murray

KDED123 · #14 September 15th, 2005, 04:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Murray S.

1: Is Win95 still on the computer??

2: Is ANY operating system on the computer??

3: Is the Win98 cd you are trying to use a full install or upgrade (it will say on the cd) ??

Murray

Okay... I'm pretty sure that Win95 is still on the computer because I didn't delete anything that had to do with Win95 when I was deleting files in the first place... and the Win98 cd is a complete installation CD because it came with our other computer...so yeah is there anything I can do without having to buy software?? Thanks, Katy

**Murray S.** · #15 September 15th, 2005, 04:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KDED123

Okay... I'm pretty sure that Win95 is still on the computer because I didn't delete anything that had to do with Win95 when I was deleting files in the first place... and the Win98 cd is a complete installation CD because it came with our other computer...so yeah is there anything I can do without having to buy software?? Thanks, Katy

You can't use that cd anyway as you can only legally install it on one system..

Also, because Win95 is still on the system, you will need an upgrade cd or buy another Win98 cd and completely fdisk and format the hdd to remove Win95 and then install Win98..

Murray