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General Category => Hardware => Topic started by: Tak on April 13, 2004, 06:38:29 AM

Title: Harddisk boot failure
Post by: Tak on April 13, 2004, 06:38:29 AM

Hello there,

I have been in trouble with my PC.
Recently I installed Windows 98 on an old small hard disk(6.4MB). I tried this hard disk with (again) an old computer(Pentium II 350 Mhz, memory 128MB...) , and then it DID work. But when I fit the SAME hard disk to another machine(AMD Duron 750Mhz, memory 128MB...), the computer DOES NOT boot up, saying "Invalid system disk" after Memory Check is done).  BIOS seem to recognize the hard disk, when I look at the BIOS menu.  I don't know what is wrong because, as I mentioned, it works with another PC... Could anybody give me a clue to fix?  Thank you very much.

Title: Harddisk boot failure
Post by: Leccy on April 13, 2004, 02:27:04 PM

I would make sure about the disk settings in the bios... older bioses may not have choosen the same layout as the new bios has...

you need to check for these...

heads
cylinders
LBA <--- i suspect that this is ON on the more moden computer... but off on the older one (or indeed missing)

good luck... but because you know it works on one machine... it shouldnt take too long to fix it

Leccy

Title: Harddisk boot failure
Post by: Guest on April 16, 2004, 09:49:41 AM

I changed LBA setting on BIOS, but still the hard disk doesn't boot...