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| Thread ID: 44210 | 2004-04-11 22:37:00 | Invalid system disk, replace the disk..... | plzhelpmenow (5507) | Press F1 |
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| 228704 | 2004-04-11 22:37:00 | I was just trying to boot from my second harddrive, but it won't boot and displayed the following message: "Invalid system disk, replace the disk, and then press any key". What does this mean? How can I fix it? (I am running Windows XP) |
plzhelpmenow (5507) | ||
| 228705 | 2004-04-11 22:43:00 | Does it have a valid bootable installation of Windows on it? Do you have a floppy disk in A: drive that you have overlooked? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 228706 | 2004-04-11 22:48:00 | If the other disk is still installed, you might have a problem. You need to use FDISK to make a partition active, and as GF says, it needs to have an OS on it too. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 228707 | 2004-04-11 22:49:00 | at a guess your secound hard drive has not got a operating system on it nothing to worry about as your first disk has the operating system on ( Again guessing). Also please a bit more information such as cpu Mother board and ram and in this case how the hard drives are set up example primary hard drive-os xp secondary hard drive - data ( guess) or if it has an operaating system list it please |
beama (111) | ||
| 228708 | 2004-04-11 22:52:00 | i have winxp installed on it and the partition should already be active, but i don't know if winxp is working, because it used to have a message saying :NTLDR is missing. I went to microsoft using another OS and then followed the instructions on microsoft's website. Then i got the invalid system disk message. I have just copied the partition from another harddrive, where it was working. Is there something i did wrong? | plzhelpmenow (5507) | ||
| 228709 | 2004-04-12 01:49:00 | You can't just "copy" the active partition over. You need to use an imaging program (Ghost etc) or "install" the OS. Hence the error. |
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