I have an old GW2K 1995 PC that I want to get up and running for my mom. I have had the hdd wiped by a pro...his words, wouldn't be mine but I cannot for the life of me get past this merry-go-round of error messages. Yes I am slightly computer savvy, I rebuild the old thing off and on over the years and had no problems til now.
I keep getting 2 messages. With any disk in any drive I get: Remove disks or other media.
Without a disk I get: Invalid system disks. This happens even if I try another disk in too including win98update disk.
I have original Win 95, 98 upgrade and 98 year 200 update disks as well as the original win 95 system cd from Gateway. I AM a packrat I know. So the hdd is up and recognized, and so is the floppy. Not so for the cd rom even when I choose it first for boot in the BIos. YUP familiar with the BIOs too... so I was thinking of taking out the internal battery for 24 hrs and seeing if that helps the BIOS at all. The next step is trying to get the cd up again. It was up and working till someone helpful (not on this forum that's why I'm here!!) told me to put floppy as first bootable so I did... and now here I am with a computer that boots up fine, but stalls after booting up the hdd and the floppy...heeellllppp! Gotta go, the kid needs the computer for summer school homework...oh where oh where did my laptop gp...oh where oh where could it be?? Will it ever come back from old HP? Oh where oh where can it be? (singing softly while banging head hard)

Hi and welcome to PCHF! I split your introduce yourself thread and put your last post into the Windows 95/98/ME forum for you.

Are you trying to install Windows 95 and you have the install CD?

Thanks,
Adam

I'm trying to reinstall win 98 from the update disk. I have the original 95 disk and the 98 yr 2000 disk so I should be all set but I am having these error messages. I am going to go back to sleep now and will be back sometime tonight when I have had a chance to put the battery back into the pc and see what if anything that did.

Do you have the Windows 98 boot disk (floppy disk)? If you don't you can get one here: http://www.dehning.com/download/util...sks/boot98.exe. Put a blank floppy disk into the floppy drive and run that program. It will create a 98 Boot disk for you. Then, boot the computer you are trying to install 98 on from the floppy disk and try to install 98 from there. You will still use the CD but the boot disk is what you boot from.

Thanks,
Adam

EDIT: It looks like you are already being helped here. This thread is locked to avoid confusion.