I have a valid boot disk but I sitll get "Invalid System Disk"

[nater]

I'm at a loss as to what to do on this one:
The Windows 98 installation on this PC craps itself. So I restart into ms-dos mode and format c:. After I do that, I stick Disk 1 of the Win2k boot disk set in the floppy drive, check that the floppy drive is the first item in the boot order, and attempt to boot up. I get an invalid system disk error every time. The floppy drive I'm using has never had a problem and I've used this boot disk before. So I have no idea what else could be wrong. The PC hangs when I try to boot to a cd-rom, which is the default (and thefore supported) option, so that route won't work either.

 

[PrincessGuard]

The floppy may have been damaged. You can recreate the disk with the makeboot.exe program in the BOOTDISK folder of the Win2k CD.

 

[nater]

Originally posted by: PrincessGuard
The floppy may have been damaged. You can recreate the disk with the makeboot.exe program in the BOOTDISK folder of the Win2k CD.

nope. I have used multipe copies of the same boot disk, as well as a few different boot disks, and they still dont work

 

[nater]

It's a Compaq so it is by default set to boot off the cd first. Even with the Win2K cd in, nothing happens. I don't get an invalid system disk message, it just hangs. Would clearing the bios fix it?

 

[amdskip]

Sometimes certain cdroms will not boot off a cd, just an idea for you. Try another floppy boot disk too.