whenever i turn on my windows 98 pc a message comes up saying

searching for boot record from floppy...not found
invalid system disk, replace the disk then press any key

can anyone help me?

if so please reply

thankyou

Redfelt

Firstly - check that the connection on the back of the floppy drive and the hard drive/CD rom is ok.

Next, go into your bios and check the boot up sequence - change it to hard drive - floppy - cd rom

thankyou for the advice

but i am a bit of a novice with computers

any chance someone could explian how to follow the steps of the previous post

thankyou

p.s sorry for the inconvinience

Well, the first one is straight forward - open your case and physically check the cables are seated correctly.

The second part requires you to tell us your exact motherboard and model number - this will enable us to tell yuo the keystroke you need upon boot to access the bios menu.

There isn't still a floppy in youre floppy drive is it? if it is then remove it and reboot.

i opened the case and checked that the floppy sdrive was connected properly, which it was. i checked the drive itself to see if there was a disk in it, there wasnt. but i am not sure how to check what kind of motherboard i have.

Try tapping "delete" when booting to get in youre bios.