Install help

[Randy]

Well, I made a mistake.
I totaly cleared my computer (because of an reinstall issue) and now
when I go to reinstall on my nice cleared drive , I get
"Invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any key"

System was messed up so I tried to reinstall.
During the reinstall, it gliched and I couldn't cancel, or stop it but
It was in an endless loop (was asking for a disk that didn't exists then
rebooted.)
So after much fustration I finaly got it to stop and formated the drive.
Then when I tried to reinstall I got the above error.

Can anyone read this mystery?

 

[Rich Barry]

Randy, how did you format your drive? I would go into the Bios and
set the cdrom drive as first boot device. Then
using the Recovery Console that's on the WinXP CD try using the
commands. Fixboot, FixMbr. Check here for more
info http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058/EN-US/

Here's another method though fdisk in Dos is a little more
complicated.
I would go here www.bootdisk.com and download and create a Win98SE
Boot disk. Then I would go into the Bios and set the floppy drive as
first boot device. Insert the newly created floppy
and bootup. At the A:\ type: fdisk /mbr remove the floppy and
insert the WinXP CD. Restart and see if everything
checks out. If yes, continue with the Install. If not then use the
floppy bootdisk again and when at A:\ type fdisk and
follow the instructions. Try deleting and then creating new partition
and then formatting. When you are ready to format
at the A:\ type format C:

 

[Randy]

Well, I had found an old win98 disk and used that to fdisk then format
the drive, thats when the problem started. I tried the /mbr thing and
it didn't do anything... not sure what that was supose to do. I am
wondering now if my drive took a dump (the cd) I started with cd-rom
suport but I can't read the drive or any disk I put in.