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Old September 7th 04, 11:43 PM
John Powell
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Running Windows Me (reinsatlled in May 04) suddenly won't
Boot. Message "Invalid Boot Disk"" appears, even with no
boot disk in Floppy Drive. When actual boot disk (from
05/04) is inserted, same message appears. From other
forums it appears this may be a sign of deteriorating hard
drive. Help!
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Old September 8th 04, 05:44 AM
Jerry
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Is the BIOS set so you boot from the hard drive?

Is the C:\ partition set to active in FDISK?

Are the boot files on the C:\ drive?

When's the last time it successfully booted from the hard drive?

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Running Windows Me (reinsatlled in May 04) suddenly won't
Boot. Message "Invalid Boot Disk"" appears, even with no
boot disk in Floppy Drive. When actual boot disk (from
05/04) is inserted, same message appears. From other
forums it appears this may be a sign of deteriorating hard
drive. Help!



 




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