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Posted by arctic on Dec-16-2003 14:36:

Computer Problem

SInce the FAQ forum gets one post a day, i'm putting this here in the hope of a response.

Basically, whenever I turn on my laptop, i get an 'invalid system disk, replacethe disk, and then press any key' error.

There is no floppy in the drive, the BIOS tells me that the boot order is as follows:
- hard drive
- cd-rom drive
- removable devices
- network boot

I've already tried resetting settings to default, no luck.

Is a straight out format/XP reinstall the only option?

Posted by arctic on Dec-16-2003 14:47:

/me bumps thread in the cope some computer tech will be browsing the boards

Posted by DJ-Fuq on Dec-16-2003 14:58:

Re: Computer Problem

quote:
Originally posted by arctic
Is a straight out format/XP reinstall the only option?

Dont u have a boot floppy?
Sounds to me like the files needed to boot have been deleted from the hard drive. I doubt u wouldve deleted them urself so maybe it was a trojan/virus.

Posted by arctic on Dec-16-2003 15:01:

Re: Re: Computer Problem

quote:
Originally posted by DJ-Fuq
Dont u have a boot floppy?
Sounds to me like the files needed to boot have been deleted from the hard drive. I doubt u wouldve deleted them urself so maybe it was a trojan/virus.

Come to think of it, I might, then again I might not. And yeah, I certainly wouldn't have done it myself, i've probably got a virus somehow. I've got an up to date AV, but apparently that hasn't helped :/

Posted by DJ-Fuq on Dec-16-2003 15:04:

Re: Re: Re: Computer Problem

quote:
Originally posted by arctic
Come to think of it, I might, then again I might not. And yeah, I certainly wouldn't have done it myself, i've probably got a virus somehow. I've got an up to date AV, but apparently that hasn't helped :/

Well it wont help if u cant boot and do a scan lol
If u dont have a boot floppy just reinstall xp then do a scan.

Posted by arctic on Dec-16-2003 15:08:

I think i'll format the bloody thing and reinstall xp, looks like i dont have a boot disk after all. Ah well.

Posted by DJ-Fuq on Dec-16-2003 15:13:

U could just reinstall xp without formatting
Or boot from the xp cd instead

Posted by xKaoSx on Dec-16-2003 15:25:

Boot to the XP CD then do a repair- You dont even have to do a reinstall.

Posted by KilldaDJ on Dec-16-2003 18:52:

do a full format then reinstall, or if u got 2 hds, get into dos and copy the lot to the other drive and then format.

Posted by Turbonium on Dec-16-2003 18:57:

Disable your floppy disk controller in the BIOS, and reboot, see what happens.

Enable it after and see if it's fixed.

Posted by igottaknow on Dec-16-2003 18:58:

quote:
Originally posted by xKaoSx
Boot to the XP CD then do a repair- You dont even have to do a reinstall.

he could also reboot from Anti-virus CD, but that assumes he has a legitmate copy of XP or AV.

kazaa should come bundled with anti-virus software.

Posted by arctic on Dec-16-2003 21:00:

quote:
Originally posted by igottaknow
he could also reboot from Anti-virus CD, but that assumes he has a legitmate copy of XP or AV.

kazaa should come bundled with anti-virus software.

heh, fully legit copies of both actually.

I have a partitioned drive, and all the music just happened to be on the non system drive, so I just ended up formattging the system drive and left the files/data one alone. I did a full scan afterwards, but it came up with nothing, so if I had a virus the format must have taken it out.

Posted by Rostros on Dec-17-2003 19:52:

Re: Computer Problem

quote:
Originally posted by arctic
SInce the FAQ forum gets one post a day, i'm putting this here in the hope of a response.

Basically, whenever I turn on my laptop, i get an 'invalid system disk, replacethe disk, and then press any key' error.

There is no floppy in the drive, the BIOS tells me that the boot order is as follows:
- hard drive
- cd-rom drive
- removable devices
- network boot

I've already tried resetting settings to default, no luck.

Is a straight out format/XP reinstall the only option?

most laptops have two HDD, Check that it should be booting Internal HDD, otherwise id install windoze again, check fdisk if you still have a partition,

Posted by keithos27 on Dec-17-2003 20:21:

quote:
Originally posted by arctic
heh, fully legit copies of both actually.

I have a partitioned drive, and all the music just happened to be on the non system drive, so I just ended up formattging the system drive and left the files/data one alone. I did a full scan afterwards, but it came up with nothing, so if I had a virus the format must have taken it out.

i do the same thing.

Posted by arctic on Dec-17-2003 21:07:

quote:
Originally posted by keithos27
i do the same thing.

It's useful, as if you're forced to format, you don't have to lose all the 'crucial' files (Aka music and porn).

Posted by Hg-203 on Dec-19-2003 03:39:

If you don't have a floppy in the drive and it still gives you an 'invalid system disk error you have a bad h/d if you can put in your xp cd and try too boot off of that and reinstall your OS if you want to keep whats on that partition, if not then go ahead and nuke the h/d and start from scrach.

Posted by arctic on Dec-19-2003 03:44:

Already done that two or three days ago, as mentioned above.