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Technophiliacs & Technophiles The Technophiliacs forum is for discussing any and all forms of tech and other types of social backwardness. Including discussions of strange home-brewed hardware technology. Where to get good tools. How to make fiberglass molds. Computer hardware and software technolgy, including operating systems, applications, networking, hardware, CPU's, disk drives, and other geeky things. Viruses and Artificial Life discussions. How to write HTML. End user tools discussions and support issues. Gating the Internet with other nets.

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Old 2002-10-18, 11:34
b4d0m3n b4d0m3n is offline
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Default invalid system disk my ass

dammit. does anyone know what the �nvalid system disk' error means when there's nuffin in the fd.
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Old 2002-10-18, 16:54
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Default Re: invalid system disk my ass

It could be a messed up MBR flagging the wrong partition as bootable. It could also be a corrupt/missing autoexec.bat or config.sys file, I think.
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Old 2002-10-19, 03:46
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Default Re: invalid system disk my ass

The hard drive could be somehow buggered as he said or the cable etc. I've seen it happen if you do dumb stuff like put the floppy cable round the wrong way.
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Old 2002-10-19, 08:26
b4d0m3n b4d0m3n is offline
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Default Re: invalid system disk my ass

yay i worked it out myself. thanks for the help.
 
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