Reformated hard drive and it says Invalid system disk

[Catchen22]

I reformated my hard drive and when it boots up it gets past the BIOS and then tells me invalid system disk. I tried rebooting it and puting in a start up disk but it won't read from the floppy drive or the cd rom. I went into BIOS and it does detect the floppy drive and the cd rom so I went to chang the order of boot. I gave me 3 choices " REMOVABLE DEVICE / HARD DRIVE / CD ROM. Thats exactly how I have the order but it still won't read from the start up disk. Any ideas?

 

[microAmp]

<< I reformated my hard drive and when it boots up it gets past the BIOS and then tells me invalid system disk. I tried rebooting it and puting in a start up disk but it won't read from the floppy drive or the cd rom. I went into BIOS and it does detect the floppy drive and the cd rom so I went to chang the order of boot. I gave me 3 choices " REMOVABLE DEVICE / HARD DRIVE / CD ROM. Thats exactly how I have the order but it still won't read from the start up disk. Any ideas? >>



What OS are you going to install and mobo?

 

[ElFenix]

how old is the computer?

 

[Catchen22]

I'm going to install 98 on a tyan tomcat mobo.

 

[John]

Your system rig profile shows you to be using Win XP. With that in mind, change the boot sequence in BIOS to cdrom, hard drive, floppy and put the XP cd in your drive. You will then see a prompt to "hit any key to boot from cd" and do so. Follow the on screen prompts.

* In case you decide to use Win 98, I would still check your boot sequence and try another known good start up disk. You can then enable cd rom support is DOS and run setup from the cd.

 

[Catchen22]

it's kinda old.


800 mhz Celeron
20 gig Quantium Fireball HD
Generic Floppy
Generic 48X CD rom
Tyan Tomcat mobo

 

[Catchen22]

<< Your system rig profile shows you to be using Win XP. With that in mind, change the boot sequence in BIOS to cdrom, hard drive, floppy and put the XP cd in your drive. You will then see a prompt to "hit any key to boot from cd" and do so. Follow the on screen prompts.

* In case you decide to use Win 98, I would still check your boot sequence and try another known good start up disk. You can then enable cd rom support is DOS and run setup from the cd. >>



Actually the system i'm working on isn' on my profile. Forgot to say that. sorry.

 

[Catchen22]

Hey John you helped me out a while ago. I remember cause of your signature. Never argue with a stupid person.........
I thought that was funny.

 

[SilverBack]

The system says invalid disk, because it's looking at your hard disk 1st.
Re-assign so that it says cd-rom, HDD 0, then floppy.
All valid 98 cd-roms are bootable, including upgrade versions. If it is an upgrade, just have a setup disk from your previous MS operating system and insert it when prompted for proof of upgrade.

The cd-rom is a 48x, I can't think of any that fast that aren't bootable cd-rom devices.

Watch your screen, when your system looks for an OS it will ask you if you want to boot from the cd-rom. Just hit enter and install.