Please...can one of you-living intelligent beings-help to resolve the issue of my wife's laptop...reformatted by me ie FORMAT C:\ - I am now left with a laptop - which issues the following; invalid system disk -replace the disk,and then press anykey"? I have tried everything...are there any brains out there?It is an old toshiba pentium II - satellite - 4000 cdt laptop...urgent....
2007-12-21 23:43:37 · 5 answers · asked by Wayne B 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Have you tried inserting a valid system disc?
Like the one you created BEFORE formating the drive?
LOL
Go around to a friends and make one from their comp.
2007-12-21 23:53:59 · answer #1 · answered by Trev 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What seems to be happening is that your wife's laptop is attempting to boot up from either the hard drive, which has no Operating System installed, or the CD-ROM drive which contains your backup Windows 98 CD, which is not bootable.
If you already have a boot floppy disk, you'll need to change the BIOS settings to allow it to boot from that drive.
What you need to do is boot from a floppy disk that has been made bootable. You can download one from the following site. (They download as executable files, so you'll need to double-click on the .exe file for it to compile a bootable floppy. Obviously, you'll need to have a blank floppy disk for it to write the information to.)
When the laptop has booted up, you'll see C:\ on screen.
Type D:\ and press Enter. Now type Setup.exe and press Enter again.
Hopefully, this will get you back on the road.
If you need any more help, feel free to contact me via email.
2007-12-22 01:43:33 · answer #2 · answered by micksmixxx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This error means that the computer cannot find an operating system to load. If you have a Windows Installation CD put that in the cd drive and reboot your computer. If not try and borrow one from a friend.
2007-12-24 08:22:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you try looking at the answer I supplied when you last asked this question 5 minutes ago?
2007-12-21 23:46:38 · answer #4 · answered by ray_diator 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry,
there is no way u should reinstall the windows in the c:/
2007-12-22 00:46:44 · answer #5 · answered by Ajay k 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋