Invalid System Disc

poodlefox · 3rd June 2003

HI PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP ME.
WHEN I TURNED ON MY COMPUTOR (I AM RUNNING WINDOWS 98)
IT SAID *INVALID SYSTEM DISC REPLACE DISC AND PRESS ANY KEY.
I REPLACED MY WINDOWS 98 START UP DISC AND THE SAME THING HAPPENS
PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP ME

merlin · 3rd June 2003

Take the diskette out and try press the restart button on the
PC case.
regards

**markp62** · 4th June 2003

Change the boot sequence in the Bios to boot from the floppy first, assuming hard drive is new or not formatted, and you are trying to fdisk and/or format.
However if nothing is wrong with the hard drive in the first place, the above advice by merlin applies.
Is there something wrong to want you to have a boot floppy other than as a fail safe?

wwshack · 10th June 2003

The same thing happened to my daughters PC.

I could not access safe mode and eventually had to reinstall windows.
Afterwards I deleted a freebe Disney program, the disc was left in the PC when it crashed - last on guilty as sin... QED.

I also ran the system file checker and found a corrupted file, so far all is now OK, though I intend on wiping the disc and starting again as her system could do with a clear out.