I have been trying to swap a hard drive form a pentium based 133mhz system into an EMachine ETower 433mhz system. When I try to boot the EMachine with the drive all I get is an “invalid system disk” error. I know the drive is a good bootable drive and it boots just fine in its original 133mhz machine. I tried using auto detect in the CMOS as well as USER defined. I checked the settings in the 133mhz machines CMOS and made sure the EMachine CMOS matched. The drive is recognized by the CMOS and my boot messages indicate it found a bootable drive on the primary IDE master. I even tried clearing the CMOS with the jumpers, loading defaults and optimal settings in th CMOS. So does anyone have any other good ideas why it will not boot off the drive? Its a win98 OS fat32 formatted drive 6.4mb. It was formatted into three 2GB logical drives as that is all the 133mhz system bios supported at the time. Should I just wipe the drive and reformat on the EMachine? I was hoping to preserve what was on the drive.
