Mark and Judith Walter wrote:

>    Hello,
>           Hope someone can help me out. I have some older hard
> drives(in the 202-328MB range)have tried them on a number of
> different machines and get "Invalid System Disk, Replace the disk and
> press any key."when starting up. If I put a bootable floppy in, it
> will boot up and I can look at C: and all seems fine. I have even
> loaded Win3.1 onto one of them and it will run fine as long as I boot
> up with a floppy, go to C: and tell it to run Win. It is marked as
> the active partition and have tried booting without the A:(floppy)
> only C: set in the bios. They seem to be formatted with fat16 and
> have tried all the jumper settings on the HD.  Any thoughts on what I
> may be doing wrong would be appreciated.
>
>                                                      Thanks,
>                                                         Mark Walter

 I would recheck the HD jumper settings (Master or 1st Drive); have you
setup the HD parameters correctly in the BIOS? (ie cyl., heads, sectors)

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