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New MessageHelp me Resurrect my 1200! (modified 0 times) booyaka
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I have a Stylistic 1200 and had win98SE installed. Was working perfectly fine untill I started playing around with various settings (only in windows...not in bios) to speed up the system.

After I messed up several things, I felt the best way to get my system back to normal was to reformat and reinstall win98SE. Well...after hooking up the 1200 HDD to my desktop via 2.5 to 3.5 adapter, I formated and ran scandisk. Then copied over the win98SE files and popped the 2.5 HDD into the 1200.

Then the problem began. After inital boot sequence, an error message comes up saying that the disk is invalid, replace disk and press any key.

Anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get past this problem? I'm thinking some important system files were deleted while formating. Maybe someone can send me a zip of those files? Thanks in advance for your inputs.

04-05-2002 08:48:50

New MessageRE:Help me Resurrect my 1200! (modified 0 times) YouBecha
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when you run fdisk, you need to make the C: drive on your iopener disk active...i.e. in the menus, set active partition.

And you need to make sure you did a "sys c:" (or whatever drive it is) after you formatted it, to put the dos boot stuff on it.

BTW you cannot make any other drive partition active if you have a windows or other boot drive installed at the same time.

In other words,

In you main machine that you used to copy the data from...disconnect the HD (power anyway, or both power and data) that contains the C: drive. Either plug your 2.5" drive onto that header, or another one...doesn't matter as long as the primary drive is off.

Just did this...forgot about setting active partition, pulled hair out, then remembered.

Sound good?


You will have to boot from a win98 boot disk to do this and run fdisk.

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04-05-2002 09:12:53

New MessageRE:Help me Resurrect my 1200! (modified 0 times) wanderer
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booyaka,

Since you didn't mention fdisk, I assume you just reformatted. I also assume you did so without adding /s to keep the system files. So, if you copied the 98SE setup files from the CD to the 1200 drive, put it back on the adapter, put the 98SE startup disk you made into the floppy drive, and open the BIOS on your desktop and set it to boot first to floppy, then to the 1200 drive. At the A:\ prompt, type sys C:\ Then you can put it back in the Fujitsu and run C:\setup. You'll need to add the pen driver, etc., when you're done -- send me your Yahoo ID and I'll enable access to a place I've got them stored. Remember to set the boot sequence back on your desktop. If indeed you did run fdisk, you becha you forgot to set the partition as active, as so many of us have ;)

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04-05-2002 15:05:01

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