pc won't boot

[bobcsus]

i'm using a procomp bx motherboard with pII 350 installed. everything worked fine after i finished building it until i decided to try and add an older hard drive. the hard drive didn't work so i powered down, removed the drive and booted up again only to get an "invalid system disk please remove and hit any key" this occured even though there was nothing in the floppy drive. i tried various bios tweaks, a new floppy drive and i even removed the drive only to still get this error. it is maddening. if i hadn't tried installing that stupid drive i'd be done now!! thanks for your help

[sleddog]

I'm assuming you mean that now there is no harddrive at all installed?

In the BIOS did you (a) remove reference to the harddrive, and (b) set the boot order to A,C? Sounds like the system is trying still to boot from a harddrive first (maybe the boot order is set to C,A?)

[bobcsus]

everything is hooked up fine including the hard drive. i've tried all the different boot orders that are possible in the bios and i've physically disconnected the floppy from the computer. i still keep getting the same message

[bobcsus]

the hard drive i tried to install was a second one not the primamy.

[Paleo Pete]

Set the BIOS boot sequence to A;C and the proper floppy drive type. Boot to the proper start up disk for the operating system. At the A:\> prompt type
sys_c:
using a space instead of the underscore used here. After a few seconds you will see the message System Transferred. That will rewrite the system files to the hard drive, and it should then be bootable again.

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