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by fulfergirl

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I Format wrong I trying to installed win 98 now it hung up on Invalid Sys Disk replace disk hit any key The Boot Up disk is in Just besure it was good disk I check it out it good so that not it I can't do a thing with it it stuck How do I get pass this Thanks BJ

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by rapidad

OK, now we need to check your hard drive, when booting can you go to setup and do an auto discovery of hdd (or does your board have auto discover by default?), and then make sure the discriptor for the floppy in bios isnt set to 1.2 meg (5 1/4).
let us know...........

by rapidad

Make sure your floppy is listed before the hard drive in the bios,
a,c,scsi etc.

by fulfergirl

Didn't work I download each win 98 bootup disk in there but none them work It like it hung on that message Thanks BJ

by cglrcng9

Sounds like you are using aftermarket drive partitioning software. Try hitting the spacebar (with the boot disk removed), after you get the message and see if it boots properly.

by edsdave

GO into BIOS and set 1st boot device to CDROM and reboot with WIN98 CD in the CDTRAY.

by thechas

When you set up the bootdisk, did you format it as a bootable disk?

In order to work as a boot (system) disk, the disk needs to be setup as a system disk, and not just have the files copied to it.

From a W98 system, insert a blank floppy.
Open My Computer, and right click on the floppy drive.
From the options, select format, and make sure that the option for making a system / bootable disk is checked.
After the disk is formated, copy over the boot files, but do NOT replace any files onthe disk.

Another way to do this, is from control panel, add/remove programs.
Click on the startup disk tab, and follow the prompts.

Other possible causes:

Floppy drive A: is not in the list of boot devices in BIOS settings.

Floppy drive cable is backwards.

Chas

by fulfergirl

Don't know if this help but here what it does plug and play load and the hd then cpu clock ,catch memory,diskette A: 1.44,3.5,pri. master,slave,then the second msters,display time,serial port ,parallel port,edo dram, sd ram,12 cach type pipeline burst Pci device,bus,device,tunc,vender,decice,ide,serial bus,display,simple comm.con 5, serial bus con.11 then the message Invalid system disk on this computer next should be the windows 98 flag looking thing I try each file 1 by 1 start with the command then dr.space , Io.sys msdos.sys that didn't do it the space bar didn't work The floppy disk work I check it out so it good if I could just get the C: command I could format right Thank each one of you'll for your time and patients You'll are great BJ

by reference

If I understand correctly, I think your saying that you've checked the floppy disk, and it's a good disk??? Have you tried a different Floppy Drive? It's possible that you drive shows up o.k. in bios, and recognized by the system, but cannot read your disk properly. I see this happen quite often. try cleaning or replacing the floppy drive.
Hope it helps, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

by jwalker2

If you have opened up your case at all?? It is possible you have inadvertently unplugged your HARD-DRIVE. Check all SCSI connections for a secure fit.

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