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by whodisme

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I have a asus k7 motherboard, amd 750 processor,SB live soundcard, 3dfx 16mb video card, 2 operating systems(win 98, 2000) on a 30 GB 7200 rpm hard drive. Fat 32 file system. I received the " invalid system disk, press any key to continue" error after running Norton Systemworks 2001 optimization wizard. This is the second time this has happened to my hard drive. Lasttime, i fixed it by using Sys c: and recovered win 98 but lost my win 2000 partition. Now, I am able to get into my win 2000 partition but not win 98. Any fixes besides re-installing win 98? Can i replace the command.com file?

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by whodisme

I tried restoring a good registry by typing at the a: and c: scanreg/restore. I got an error saying "cdr101 not reading drive g:, abort, retry, fail? " Drive g: is my win 2000 partition.

by computechie

The problem is that Norton doesn't play well with Windows anymore like it used to. Microsoft has made so many changes to their OS structure that I've seen this happen before when a friend ran Norton's Speed Disk on a Win2K machine. You might want totry using Fdisk, with the fdisk /mbr command to restore the master boot record, and that might get you back up and running. Replacing command.com or using the sys C: could get it also. It's too bad that Norton isn't as compatible as it used to be, they always made really nice tools. Anyway, I hope this helps you get back up and running.

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