The other day, I was unable to boot into my Win98 system. After it posted, it simply went to a blank black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner. There was no activity. I would get the same results with my attempts to boot in safe mode. I managed to be able to boot to the dos prompt and get into my drives that way.
Thinking it was likely a corrupted Windows setup, I proceeded to reformat my C drive to reinstall a fresh Win98. No loss doing so.
After my c: drive reformatted successfully, I was no longer to access anything. On bootup, the system would always fail with "Invalid system disk. Replace the disk, and then press any key." I cannot get any prompts to access. F8 on startup does not get me to any menu. (safe mode, prompt etc). This sends me in an infinate loop of not finding a valid system disk. I get the same message when I try to use a floppy boot disk.
I noticed that in the posting that neither of my harddrives are being recognized (no pri. master or pri. slave disks identified). What happened to them after I reformatted, and how to I go about getting them back.
Jennifer
Thinking it was likely a corrupted Windows setup, I proceeded to reformat my C drive to reinstall a fresh Win98. No loss doing so.
After my c: drive reformatted successfully, I was no longer to access anything. On bootup, the system would always fail with "Invalid system disk. Replace the disk, and then press any key." I cannot get any prompts to access. F8 on startup does not get me to any menu. (safe mode, prompt etc). This sends me in an infinate loop of not finding a valid system disk. I get the same message when I try to use a floppy boot disk.
I noticed that in the posting that neither of my harddrives are being recognized (no pri. master or pri. slave disks identified). What happened to them after I reformatted, and how to I go about getting them back.
Jennifer