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help!!! can't reboot...

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dans741

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I have an old P166 that Has had the harddrive reformatted and I can't get it to boot. It doesn't recognize the cdrom or the floppy (I get an 'Invalid system disk, replace disk and hit any key' message when I try to boot from a win98 start-up disk). I get the said message whether there is a disk in the machine or not. The computer goes through the post and that's all. I am very new at this so any detailed information would be much appreciated. 😕
 
Check your BIOS settings.
HDD and CD-ROM detected?
Also you should enable floppy drive.

More info on system helps.
 
If you installed a new floppy drive or had the cable removed for some reason try turning the floppy cable and re-insert it. If floppy cable has a red stripe on it then it should (usually) be toward the power supply. If floppy light stays on then this is your problem.
 
The cables are all hooked up right and I have checked the bios and the harddrive is detected and so is the fdd. I've tried taking the hdd out of the sytem in question and installed it into my main system and loaded the start-up files directly onto the hdd then putit back into the other system (after resetting the jumpers back to master). I then went into the bios and changed the boot sequence to boot from the hdd first and still got the same error message as before (invalid system disk, etc.).
 
Try and boot with the floppy only attached to it. No other cables. Use a win98 startup disk or just copy the command.com to the floppy. If it doesn't work it might be the floppy drive itself.

Link to make a boot disk.
 
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