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re: Boot disk.. um isn't working! Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 2:43 am Posted by JmC (14166 messages posted) This can't be happening! Turn your computer off, insert the boot disk in your floppy drive and then turn it on. When it boots you'll see the A:\> prompt, now what do you want to do? ...this is scaring me.... JmC On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 at 5:11 pm, NewOrleansHornetsFAN wrote: >Hey there, I am trying to boot my harddrive to run windows 95, and I am using a windows >98 created boot disk. When I put the disk in upon startup, the machine, particularly >the floppy drive recognizes the disk and seems to read it, yet no matter how many >times i hit any key, it says the same old thing. "Invalid system disk, replace the >disk and strike any key when ready." Crap. HELP someone. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Oh, brother....good grief (nt) Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 2:56 am Posted by Ms. Eagle (33507 messages posted) On Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 2:43 am, JmC wrote: > > >This can't be happening! Turn your computer off, insert the boot disk in your floppy >drive and then turn it on. When it boots you'll see the A:\> prompt, now what do >you want to do? > > ...this is scaring me.... > > > JmC > > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Boot disk.. um isn't working! Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 10:19 am Posted by Zerith (2 messages posted) Somethins eather wrong with your disk or the data on it. What i sujest is create a new boot disk. This can be done by going on a Windows 98 computer and clicking Start>Settings>Control Panel>Add Remove Programs >Windows Boot Disk > then from there you can follow the on-screen instructions to create the disk. Its eather that or the data on the boot disk is not compatiable with windows 95(which wouldn't make any sence) causing that message to appear in responce to non-bootable files or structure. On Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 2:43 am, JmC wrote: > > >This can't be happening! Turn your computer off, insert the boot disk in your floppy >drive and then turn it on. When it boots you'll see the A:\> prompt, now what do >you want to do? > > ...this is scaring me.... > > > JmC > > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Boot disk.. um isn't working! Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 1:32 pm Posted by NewOrleansHornetsFAN (2 messages posted) No, believe me I have tried for hours at a time to get this shit going. As for creating a new boot disk, I went to my aunt's computer that runs windows 98, tried that but then I get this error message that says the Windows 98 CD needs to be here, and she doesn't have one. Wow, I'm in a fix. On Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 10:19 am, Zerith wrote: >Somethins eather wrong with your disk or the data on it. What i sujest is create >a new boot disk. This can be done by going on a Windows 98 computer and clicking >Start>Settings>Control Panel>Add Remove Programs >Windows Boot Disk > then from >there you can follow the on-screen instructions to create the disk. Its eather that >or the data on the boot disk is not compatiable with windows 95(which wouldn't make >any sence) causing that message to appear in responce to non-bootable files or structure. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Boot disk.. um isn't working! Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 5:11 pm Posted by Brian (1 messages posted) I have the same problem - invalid disk message, and I've tried about 6 boot disks. Floppy drive is working fine - reads anything I put in. I have been stuck for about three weeks with this problem, and everyone tells me it is impossible for this to happen On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 at 5:11 pm, NewOrleansHornetsFAN wrote: >Hey there, I am trying to boot my harddrive to run windows 95, and I am using a windows >98 created boot disk. When I put the disk in upon startup, the machine, particularly >the floppy drive recognizes the disk and seems to read it, yet no matter how many >times i hit any key, it says the same old thing. "Invalid system disk, replace the >disk and strike any key when ready." Crap. HELP someone. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Boot disk.. um isn't working! Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 8:04 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33507 messages posted) Try here: http://computing.net/cgi-bin/AT-search.cgi [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Boot disk.. um isn't working! Thursday, August 29, 2002 at 2:04 am Posted by JmC (14166 messages posted) When you make your boot disk, disable all unnecessary programs particularly Anti-Virus programs. If you are using a known good boot disk from another system, be sure that any BIOS Virus scanners are disabled, as this alone can cause the boot disk to fail. JmC On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 at 5:11 pm, NewOrleansHornetsFAN wrote: >Hey there, I am trying to boot my harddrive to run windows 95, and I am using a windows >98 created boot disk. When I put the disk in upon startup, the machine, particularly >the floppy drive recognizes the disk and seems to read it, yet no matter how many >times i hit any key, it says the same old thing. "Invalid system disk, replace the >disk and strike any key when ready." Crap. HELP someone. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Boot disk.. um isn't working! Thursday, August 29, 2002 at 6:42 pm Posted by HarryH (1 messages posted) Depending on the configuration of your PCs, a Win98 startup disk might not work on a Win95 machine. Why not download a boot disk for Win95, by going here: http://www.techadvice.com/W95/S/start-up_disk_w95.htm If your PC won't start using this Win95 boot disk, you may have a hardware fault. The memory RAM, for instance, might be damaged, which would prevent you booting. Consider - Why were you originally forced to try booting from A:\? What was the error you were getting when you tried to boot from C:\? The clue to the problem may be if you can't boot from C:\ or from A:\, as that would indicate a bigger problem than a faulty boot disk. Is your system set up to boot from the CD-ROM? That is worth a try, if you have or can get a bootable CD disk. Windows 98 disks are I think supposed to be bootable, and you say you have Win98, so try using your master Win98 CD to boot your Win95 machine. But it does sound rather like a hardware fault. On Thursday, August 29, 2002 at 2:04 am, JmC wrote: > > >When you make your boot disk, disable all unnecessary programs particularly >Anti-Virus programs. If you are using a known good boot disk from another >system, be sure that any BIOS Virus scanners are disabled, as this alone can >cause the boot disk to fail. > > > JmC > > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 95 Discussion Forum