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?

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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.

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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 :/

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

Enable it after and see if it's fixed.

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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.

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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.

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