working HD gives me "invalid system disk" error in new machine??

[niteowl]

Hi all,

I just removed 2 HD's from working win98 machines, and tried putting
them in a new tower.. I thought it would simply reread and update the
data base and drivers of the new box.. is this not right?

I am putting these drives in one at a time, and I get the same error
on both drives. The system I am putting them into is an older Aladdin
box with a 350mhz intl processor, 128M RAM, I think it's a Pentium II
motherboard.. ? but not sure.

The original HD is giving lots of odd errors, and I'm pretty sure it's
about to die, I was just trying to replace it with one that would give
it some more life.

I have not tried fdisking and formatting, I was hoping to be able to
save all the stuff already on the drives..

Is what I thought would happen feasible?

thanks,
niteowl

[Lil' Dave]

Means one of two things.
Tower PC cannot locate HD that is active
OR
Tower PC cannot locate Partition boot record.

Either way, its a bios translation difference between the two PCs involved
of the HD.

There's a fix, but not using current HD installation as is or its filesystem
modfication. Its called imaging to alternate common media to both PCs.
"niteowl" > wrote in message
...
> Hi all,
>
> I just removed 2 HD's from working win98 machines, and tried putting
> them in a new tower.. I thought it would simply reread and update the
> data base and drivers of the new box.. is this not right?
>
> I am putting these drives in one at a time, and I get the same error
> on both drives. The system I am putting them into is an older Aladdin
> box with a 350mhz intl processor, 128M RAM, I think it's a Pentium II
> motherboard.. ? but not sure.
>
> The original HD is giving lots of odd errors, and I'm pretty sure it's
> about to die, I was just trying to replace it with one that would give
> it some more life.
>
> I have not tried fdisking and formatting, I was hoping to be able to
> save all the stuff already on the drives..
>
> Is what I thought would happen feasible?
>
> thanks,
> niteowl

[niteowl]

thanks, I ended up fdisking and reformatting and they both worked
fine.. thanks for the info, will know for next time..

niteowl

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 17:21:00 -0400, "Lil' Dave"
> wrote:

>Means one of two things.
>Tower PC cannot locate HD that is active
>OR
>Tower PC cannot locate Partition boot record.
>
>Either way, its a bios translation difference between the two PCs involved
>of the HD.
>
>There's a fix, but not using current HD installation as is or its filesystem
>modfication. Its called imaging to alternate common media to both PCs.
>"niteowl" > wrote in message
...
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just removed 2 HD's from working win98 machines, and tried putting
>> them in a new tower.. I thought it would simply reread and update the
>> data base and drivers of the new box.. is this not right?
>>
>> I am putting these drives in one at a time, and I get the same error
>> on both drives. The system I am putting them into is an older Aladdin
>> box with a 350mhz intl processor, 128M RAM, I think it's a Pentium II
>> motherboard.. ? but not sure.
>>
>> The original HD is giving lots of odd errors, and I'm pretty sure it's
>> about to die, I was just trying to replace it with one that would give
>> it some more life.
>>
>> I have not tried fdisking and formatting, I was hoping to be able to
>> save all the stuff already on the drives..
>>
>> Is what I thought would happen feasible?
>>
>> thanks,
>> niteowl
>