I formatted my c drive which had win 98 on it. I rebooted with the 98 SE Cd-Rom in the tray. The setup was going all by itself just like normal, than the disc quit reading and it froze up. Now when I reboot, it says "Invalid System Disc" whether the CD is in the tray or not. I at least want to restore the PC back to normal if the 98 SE install wont work. Any suggestions??
2007-02-05 05:02:15 · 2 answers · asked by clone17 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
There at least two possibilities.One, Windows 98 is an older operating system and chances are you've had the system CD laying around for a very long time. It could be damaged, in which case you could get another one. I could be dirty and cleaning it may help. The other possibility is a dirty CD reader. You could get it cleaned and try again. There is the obvious question about why you want such a dated OS, but I presume you have a very good reason.
If you have a floppy drive (I assume you do given an older computer) you could boot froma floppy into DOS and try running a utility to cleanup your harddrive that way.
2007-02-05 05:16:38 · answer #1 · answered by dwremail 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
turn on ur pc and right before starting up hit F8 bottun or whatever shows in the bottum of the screen to login ur computer's setup andbe sure that u r choosing to boot from CD
2007-02-05 05:13:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋