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Windows Forum / Windows 95 / February 2004Invalid System Disk
A friend has Windows 95 on a Pentium 75 PC. It's been working fine but now when you switch it on, the message "Invalid System Disk, replace disk and press a key" appears even though there is no disk in the floppy drive. He's tried booting up using the Windows 95 emergency floppy disk, and gets to the DOS prompt. The only thing we have tried at that stage is typing C: dir As a result it lists: 35 Files 123773 bytes 0 dirs 144384 bytes free I'd be very grateful on some help working out what the problem is and how to fix it. Thanks. > A friend has Windows 95 on a Pentium 75 PC. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > 0 dirs > 144384 bytes free check to see if the drive is being properly detected in the bios > check to see if the drive is being properly detected in the bios How should I do that? Thanks > > check to see if the drive is being properly detected in the bios > > > How should I do that? > > Thanks that varies with the machine as it boots you should see a message such as hit <del> to run setup > A friend has Windows 95 on a Pentium 75 PC. > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > I'd be very grateful on some help working out what the problem is and how to > fix it. Rather than typing "C: dir", type "dir C:" for the readout you show is probably just the contents of the floppy. can you get to the BIOS buy hitting F8 at boot time? is the harddisk listed , can you redetect it ? check cabling/connectors to the HD.... > A friend has Windows 95 on a Pentium 75 PC. > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Thanks. Check the boot disk, in another computer for a file named "sys.com". If it does not exist, try to find another Windows 95 computer and copy that file to the disk. If it does exist. reboot the defective computer with the boot disk and then at the A prompt type in the following sys C: (that is sys space C colon) You should get the response back "system files transferred" remove the boot disk and reboot from the hard drive again. > A friend has Windows 95 on a Pentium 75 PC. > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Thanks. Thanks for the suggestions. |
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