A friend has an old Pentium 1 HP Vectra 500 PC. On startup it says "Invalid system disk" like if you had a disk in the floppy drive. There is no disk in the CD or A drive. I took the A drive and CD out of the boot sequence via the bios and it made no difference. Is it the hard drive?
If the drives show up in CMOS, (or if you don't want to check) put in an emergency startup disc and run "FDISK". Choose "dispay partition info". Do you see a partition? Is it listed as active? Exit without making any changes. If there is an active partition, keep your startup disc in the floppy drive and run "scanreg /restore" to resore the registry. This may fix the problem. If no partitions appear you may be able to salvage them using a partition program. Information retreival services are expensive last resorts. When things get this bad, its often due to a virus.
Status
Not open for further replies.
You have insufficient privileges to reply here.
Related Threads
?
?
?
?
?
Tech Support Guy
9.9M posts
859.7K members
Since 1998
A forum community dedicated to tech experts and enthusiasts. Come join the discussion about articles, computer security, Mac, Microsoft, Linux, hardware, networking, gaming, reviews, accessories, and more!