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    Jerry56 Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Jun 29, 2007, 08:37 AM
    How to boot new hard drive
    I tried to defrag. My hard drive but it would stop with an error message each time, I run norton disk doctor ,the result was no errors.
    So I decided to change the hard drive with an old drive that I used to used as my master drive in another computer but when I installed it ,the computer would not boot but give the message " Invalid boot disk " let me know if I need to copy any file from the original hard drive or I need to adjust the bois system. Or just give the correct way how to get the new hard drive to boot.
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    Jun 29, 2007, 08:55 AM
    A drive has to be bootable. To make it bootable it has to be formatted with the /S switch.
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    Jun 29, 2007, 08:56 AM
    Question: Did you have all system files on that old hardrive, as in windows or another operating system?

    If not you need to format that hardrive with an operating system. I would check some of your bios settings too.
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