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  1. djsutch

    invalid system disk..

    I had the same problem and I don't know what caused it. I also have a compaq, for one compaq uses f10 to access bios, but the bios for compaq stinks. Eventually I had to run the western digital data life guard tools, and run a low level format; you can download the tools from their website if...
  2. djsutch

    invalid system disk

    no it did not , thats the strange part. it happened on my small 8g. hard drive that I play with. I had all ready installed 98 and 2000 on it, and everything worked fine for several weeks, untill I tried to boot up one day and got an invalid system disk error. This wouldn't normally bother me...
  3. djsutch

    invalid system disk

    edfair, when I tried a format, their was something wrong with the partition table, but how does it get corrupted, a virus?
  4. djsutch

    invalid system disk

    Thanks for the reply, but I could not boot up, so I used norton antivirus; did not find any. I also did a scandisk and surface test from dos, and that did not work.
  5. djsutch

    invalid system disk

    The problem was that I could not boot up, I kept getting an error" invalid system disk" I had win98 on a primary part. and 2000 on a secondary. The win98 start-up disk booted, but i could not access fdisk, nor could I format the hard drive. It seemed like I tried everything, including...

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