Why Boot and System Disk?. Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () I have an Asus A7N8X-E motherboard with 4 drives. I'm told that Disk 0 and Disk 1 are the HDs on the IDE...

in the new SATA drive. After repairing and booting into Windows I looked in disk management and saw my other PATA disk is now marked as a system disk, and there is a boot system folder created on it. So, if the OS is installed on one of my SATA drives why...

invalid system disk error on boot-up. When I hit a key after this message, it continues on and boots up XP. When I did the clean install, I had to change the boot sequence of my system since setup cannot be run from DOS and I needed to boot the system from...

I wasn't able to get the system to boot to the new disk. I get the "press any key to reboot" each time I boot the system up. I've done the "in-place upgrade" XP reinstallation and even used repair mode to fix the boot block and MBR of the new C: partition,...

directory, not the folders. I copied the root directory files from another similarly configured hd to get Windows 2K to boot - but, when I try to boot in Windows ME, I get the message "Invalid system disk - replace and strike any key." It's not that...

up: "An invalid parameter was passed to a service or function." I have tried to start in the "safe mode" to no avail. I have tried to use the Windows XP cd to boot up the system.. no go. I have tried to use a disk that should let me log on and perform...

160 gig. The 80 gig was/is the boot disk. I recently reformatted the 80 gig drive and reinstalled Win XP Home from an OEM system disk. Everything went well--except that in the process I wind up with a dual boot system, with Win XP Home on both drives....

boot. I actually resolved it by reformatting what was the old system disk. I suspect the boot partition was still there and this is what was confusing System Restore. Having done this the new system disk (C:) magically appeared on the list of drives...

second check, again says there are no errors, but runs again at the next boot. The System log shows two errors, 4 seconds apart during the boot, NTFS, Id. 55, "The file system on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run CHKDSK." Disk Management reports...

must first boot the system with a startup disk to create the primary partition and the extended/logical partitions with the FDISK command. Set the primary partition as active. Reboot. Then install WinME in the first partition. The operating system CD will...