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  1. 19th Jan 2006 18:49 #1
    gomez1
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    I am looking at my friend's old pc, when I start it it says Invalid system disk, Replace the disk and then press any key.

    I can enter dos with my win 98 startup disk.

    I loaded a new window xp cd and it will not even start, I even changed to boot from cd-r first.

    It sound like a bad hard-drive? What do you guys think?
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  2. 19th Jan 2006 20:11 #2
    Megahurts
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    Are you using a startup disc with cd rom support?

    I know Win98SE and higher have that option.

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  3. 19th Jan 2006 23:23 #3
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    When you say that you can enter DOS with the win98 boot disk, do you mean that you can access the C drive of the computer in question?

    If that is the case then all you should have to do is do a sys c: command to copy the system files back on to the hard drive, then it should boot just fine
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    Loose IDE cable?
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