Rebooting My Hard Drive with disks

searcher1026 · Post by **searcher1026** » April 13th, 2005, 9:16 pm

I recently was rebooting my hard drive with the disks from the manufacturer and right at 74% it stopped and gave me a Read Error. Now my computer whenever I turn it on says Invalid System Disk,Please Insert now. I keep trying to do it over and over again and it stops at that exact same spot. The disk seems ok,small bits of scratching though. Should I take it to a repairman? My warranty has long since run out. Please help right now my computer is a shell and I am afraid my folks will find out and kill me. Signed A Very Desperate Person

searcher1026 · Post by **searcher1026** » April 14th, 2005, 3:44 am

Should I try getting one of those Cd cleaning machines?

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » April 14th, 2005, 5:26 am

You can try cleaning you're CD (the disk) with some window cleaner and a soft paper towel, but it sounds like you have a damaged disk to me. Try the reinstall one more time, with some luck you may get past the bad spot. If not see if you can borrow a O/S disk, if not you may have to get a new O/S disk and go from there. Good Luck.

searcher1026 · Post by **searcher1026** » April 15th, 2005, 2:37 am

I tried and tried over and over again with no sucess. Do you mean I need to buy a new Operating System?

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » April 15th, 2005, 3:10 am

If you keep hanging at the same point you install disk is damaged. You may be able to get replacements from the manufacture. But the quickes way looks to be getting a new copy of XP and install it.

searcher1026 · Post by **searcher1026** » April 15th, 2005, 2:56 pm

I dont have XP I have ME but I was looking at some site that said you could download Windows ME start disks but im not sure how reliable that was.

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » April 15th, 2005, 7:24 pm

Anything free may come at a price

MawDuce · Post by **MawDuce** » April 16th, 2005, 3:00 pm

ok, heres my two cents. Windows installs on a dos partition in whatever format that OS uses. Windows 98 uses fat 32, XP uses NTFS. I dont know what ME uses. If any portion of that partition is damaged or being used by a previous install, the install will stop. I would try creating a seperate partition on the drive and attempt to install Windows on that. Assuming the partition is big enough and still could not install, I would then seriously consider new software. Hope this helps.

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » April 16th, 2005, 4:07 pm

Looks like ME is FAT 32, if you move up to XP check you're computer specs. make sure you have enough ram and processor speed. Check here first http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;295322 ME links that may help. http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... us;q268891 http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... us;q272159

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Rebooting My Hard Drive with disks

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