I have a Compaq laptop that had win 98 on it. I formatted the C drive, and rebooted. I had a win 98 SE CD- Rom in the drive I wanted to install. During the setup process, the CD quit reading for some reason, and the process froze. Now when I reboot, whether the CD is in the tray or not, a message comes on saying Invalid System Disc. I either want to install the 98SE or restore the PC back to normal. Am I screwed?? Any thoughts??
2007-02-05 04:36:12 · 2 answers · asked by clone17 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
your screwed for using a 1998 operating system in 2007
2007-02-05 04:45:39 · answer #1 · answered by lubomirbotev 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would guess that the partial format wiped out the system files on the hard disk. It also sounds like you are your hard disk as your first boot device and that is why you are seeing the Invalid system disk message. In your bios, what is your boot sequence? If you can and if it isn't already done, I would bump up your CD rom to the first device to be read from. Completely remove your hard disk as a boot device. I would think that should work. If it does, when the installation process does its first reboot, you will need to add you hard disk back into the boot sequence, mostly likely as the first device.
2007-02-05 05:19:03 · answer #2 · answered by Belron 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋