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re: invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key Sunday, March 9, 2003 at 11:25 pm Posted by malcolm fowler (465 messages posted) Probably far too obvious but have you got a non system disk in the floppy drive? If not and the system is telling you that it can't read the boot hard drive then do you have a floppy boot disk? Has anyone been fiddling with the BIOS boot sequence settings? On Sunday, March 9, 2003 at 7:28 pm, slick50bulldog wrote: >K, i have done somthing to my computer i dont know what. I started one day and it >say's invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key well i can press >all the keys i want but nothing is going to happen. I have done everthing i know >to get to windows and nothing has worked please someone tell me in simple terms >so i can figure out what to do. i just want to use my computer again. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key Sunday, March 9, 2003 at 11:42 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33449 messages posted) Boot with a startup floppy disk and at the prompt, type: C and press enter. If the C:\> prompt comes up, type DIR and press enter. You should get a list of folder and files on the drive. If so, then at the A: prompt type fdisk/mbr. You may have to also type: SYS C That will copy system files to the hard drive to make it bootable. You should get message that the files have been copied. Remove the disk and reboot. FYI, the command "fdisk/mbr" will rewrite the master boot record. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key Monday, March 10, 2003 at 7:24 am Posted by WJ (45 messages posted) Colon is missing after C twice. On Sunday, March 9, 2003 at 11:42 pm, Carol wrote: > >Boot with a startup floppy disk and at the prompt, type: C and press enter. If the >C:\> prompt comes up, type DIR and press enter. You should get a list of folder and >files on the drive. If so, then at the A: prompt type fdisk/mbr. You may have to >also type: SYS C That will copy system files to the hard drive to make it bootable. > >You should get message that the files have been copied. Remove the disk and reboot. >FYI, the command "fdisk/mbr" will rewrite the master boot record. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key Monday, March 10, 2003 at 3:45 pm Posted by Steve Easton (5183 messages posted) fdisk /mbr only works with 95B ( OSR2 ) and above. ;-) On Sunday, March 9, 2003 at 11:42 pm, Carol wrote: > >Boot with a startup floppy disk and at the prompt, type: C and press enter. If the >C:\> prompt comes up, type DIR and press enter. You should get a list of folder and >files on the drive. If so, then at the A: prompt type fdisk/mbr. You may have to >also type: SYS C That will copy system files to the hard drive to make it bootable. > >You should get message that the files have been copied. Remove the disk and reboot. >FYI, the command "fdisk/mbr" will rewrite the master boot record. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 4:59 pm Posted by miguel (1 messages posted) My mother in-law has problems with her computer she's been getting "invalid system please replace" well of course she tried to press all the keys that she can and it won't do nothing at all. well in your responce to that. you said to insert a a "start up floppy disk" what if I bought the computer with out one? I bought it used. what can I do? please help me out and e-mail me at lmig9@aol.com thanks Miguel Angel Lopez [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key Monday, April 21, 2003 at 1:45 am Posted by Ms. Eagle (33449 messages posted) You can create a startup disk right in Windows in Add/Remove programs in the Control Panel. There's a tab that says Startup disk. All you need is a blank floppy disk, then click "create disk" and follow the prompts. Alternatively, you can download one at http://www.bootdisk.com. Just be sure it's the correct one for your version 95. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key Wednesday, May 14, 2003 at 7:13 am Posted by Daniel Westwood (1 messages posted) hi im having the same problem! could u please e-mail me and give me a guid on how to fix this problem cheers dan retroairsoft@hotmail.com On Sunday, March 9, 2003 at 11:25 pm, Malcolm Fowler wrote: >Probably far too obvious but have you got a non system disk in the floppy drive? >If not and the system is telling you that it can't read the boot hard drive then >do you have a floppy boot disk? Has anyone been fiddling with the BIOS boot sequence >settings? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key Friday, December 24, 2004 at 5:42 am Posted by Gilly (1 messages posted) Hi I had the same problem, I formatted my c drive and my win95 boot disk wont work, I have 2 of them, one says can't load DOS and the other says invalid system disk. I have rebooted so many times but I can't get a C prompt so I guess I can't load DOS ....can anyone help me with any ideas? Would be sooooo grateful Merry Christmas :-) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key Friday, December 24, 2004 at 6:04 am Posted by Steve Easton (5183 messages posted) Bott the machine with the boot disk in the floppy drive. At the A:\ prompt type: sys c and press enter. Remove the floppy and reboot. On Friday, December 24, 2004 at 5:42 am, Gilly wrote: >Hi >I had the same problem, I formatted my c drive and my win95 boot disk wont work, >I have 2 of them, one says can't load DOS and the other says invalid system disk. >I have rebooted so many times but I can't get a C prompt so I guess I can't load >DOS ....can anyone help me with any ideas? Would be sooooo grateful >Merry Christmas :-) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 3:57 pm Posted by Chuck (1 messages posted) I have the same problem. I decided to reformat my son's computer; backed up everything with drivers, boot-up disks, etc.,. After doing the "dump", nothing will work. There is no prompt whatsoever. Only two messages: With no disk inserted: "INVALID SYSTEM DISK. REPLACE THE DISK, AND THEN PRESS ENTER." With floppy boot disk and/or Windows 95 Disk: "REMOVE DISKS OR OTHER MEDIA. PRESS ANY KEY TO RESTART." That's it & all attempts result in an annoying loop. Any ideas? TIA! On Friday, December 24, 2004 at 6:04 am, Steve Easton wrote: >Bott the machine with the boot disk in the floppy drive. At the A:\ prompt type: >sys c and press enter. >Remove the floppy and reboot. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 4:20 pm Posted by Steve Easton (5183 messages posted) Are you using a "Start Up" disk. You must boot after a format with a "Start up" disk that was created using windows. On Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 3:57 pm, Chuck wrote: > >I have the same problem. I decided to reformat my son's computer; backed up everything >with drivers, boot-up disks, etc.,. After doing the "dump", nothing will work. >There is no prompt whatsoever. Only two messages: > >With no disk inserted: >"INVALID SYSTEM DISK. REPLACE THE DISK, AND THEN PRESS ENTER." > >With floppy boot disk and/or Windows 95 Disk: >"REMOVE DISKS OR OTHER MEDIA. PRESS ANY KEY TO RESTART." > >That's it & all attempts result in an annoying loop. > >Any ideas? TIA! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key Thursday, February 10, 2005 at 5:35 am Posted by Tyler (2 messages posted) Dude, i am having thed same problem whenever you get anything to fix it e-mail me. I really need help with this. The computer isn't even mine. I have a boot disk that i created off of bootdisk.com and that doesn't even work and i used every disk that came with the computer there is no disk in the drives i checkeds and there is a password (that i have no clue what it is) so i cant check the boot sequence. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key Saturday, February 12, 2005 at 2:22 pm Posted by megan (1 messages posted) This laptop was a gift from my brother's girlfriend's dad, who died, recently. I was looking through the favorites and found these porn sites. I was really embarrassed for this guy who died unexpectedly and didn't have time to remove the dirty links off his personal computer. So, I went around deleting some things and I must have gotten DELETE crazy, because, the next thing I know, I was given a message saying the same thing all of you guys are receiving. I went to the www.bootdisk.com website and hope that the thing I saved on a disk will work for this deceased person's laptop. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key Monday, March 7, 2005 at 9:18 am Posted by vaughn (1 messages posted) dont feel bad my old compaq 5100 is doing the same thing it might be the hard drive or the bios or the motherboard ok . but my says the same thing but i have put in a new harddrive it works on my dell .but my is the motherboard even without the harddrive and no drives are connect . it says non-system disk but check the harddive or the mother broad ok On Sunday, March 9, 2003 at 7:28 pm, slick50bulldog wrote: >K, i have done somthing to my computer i dont know what. I started one day and it >say's invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key well i can press >all the keys i want but nothing is going to happen. I have done everthing i know >to get to windows and nothing has worked please someone tell me in simple terms >so i can figure out what to do. i just want to use my computer again. 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