invalid system disk

Asok

i recently installed windows 2000 onto a hard drive i took out of another machine. I did the ususal format then istalled it onto the drive,however after rebooting the machine after completing the installation i now get the following error during boot

Invalid System Disk,please insert a valid system disk and press any key

i`ve tried a few different things including fiddling with the bios settings and checking the jumper settings etc

anyhelp would be really appreciated chz

yossarin

stupid question:

is the end of the primary ide ribbon going into the right hard drive (your win 2k drive) ?

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Asok

aye it is
i just booted up with a boot disk and ran a dir on the drive and all the files,folders,directorys are fine

BTBB

another stupid question:
is this drive bootable?

yet another stupid question:
is this drive ide, scsi, usb, zip, super floppy ......?

This question is impossible to answer without this information.

Ensure that it is pointed to by the BIOS and that it is the primary master if the drive is IDE.

BTBB

The stupidest question of them all:
Do you have a non-bootable disk in your floppy drive?

Asok

Yes the drive is set up to be used in the boot sequence.

Its an ide hard drive. Its set up as Master on the primary cable. And no there is no bootable disk in the floppy drive.

zAbbo

Recovery console

fix the mbr

type help for commands

BKtje

ultimate stupid question:
u sure there isnt an invalid system disk in your floppy drive while booting?
(soz if some 1 already asked it )

donaloconnor

Originally posted by bazH
Recovery console

fix the mbr

type help for commands

Listen to the Man, he is dead right. Its simple the boot sectors of the disk are invalid. I would also run the boofcfg thing too
Don't u just love the recovery console so easy to fix those nasty problemos

Ronan|Raven

[danny posed the above topic for me as I wasnt of pc access at the time ]

Anyway ive reformatted that drive and created a nice big partition set it as active, reinstalled windows2k it booted fine the first time, I shut ti down went to boot into it and it still has the invalid system disk hassle. Its weird as everything should be fine on it i.e. no alterations to the install, and all is set up right.

donaloconnor

Hmm that is very strange

Ronan|Raven

Never mind its working again after it was low level formatted.