help me please

i have two questions.. either one will help me greatly. if i could boot it up, i probalby wont reformat it. any help will be greatly appricated. thanks

1) i have an older computer that curently runs windows 98. it acidently came unplugged and when i plugged it back into the outlet, it gave me an error message when it was booting up. the message said "incorrect system disk...remove disk and press any key" i got mad cause no disk was present and i unplugged my d: and a: . the message contenued. any suggestions on how to fix my boot error. (it wont even boot up in safe mode) what do i do

2) on the same computer as in #1, i tryed to reboot the hardrive and reinstall windows 98. i put in my ghost disk. went to my boot options and set it to boot from d: first. the disk booted up.... started the ghost program. and then gave me the error message that "can not copy to a write protected file". Im asuming that the write protected file is my c: in general. how would i go about making it not write protected without having to boot up in normal mode or safe mode. (the only time it will boot up is in the d:GHOST mode.)

 

1) Sounds like you need to boot from floppy and type "fixmbr" at the prompt.

2) I think you're confused. If 1) doesn't work, Boot from the CD, not the hard drive. Install windows, then ghost the original over the new (Assuming the ghost is on a different drive.partition). On install, you could try just reinstalling "Over-the-Top", first, to see how that goes. Personally, though, I'd format. (Unless your ghost is on the same partition, then you might have a bit of fun coming.)

 

i thank you for your sugestions. the only problem with your solution #2 is that i am booting from my disk. (d when i run the ghost instalation screen, it thens says "error cannot copy to a write protected disk." therefore ..... i dont know what to do. someone today said something about going to fdisk and deleting something and creating a new one...but im not too sure on what to do. any help would be greatly appriated. thank you.

 

Booting with what disk? The Ghost one, or the Win98 one?

Fdisk is a piece of cake. If it's, say, your "D:" partition/drive that's borked, use FDisk to delete the thing, then create it, again.

These sites give better instructions than I can, I suspect.

http://home.pacbell.net/dbk4297/fdiskformat.html

http://24hrsupport.netfirms.com/fdisk.html

 

Thanks........... That Helped Alot..... I Really Appreciate The Help.

 

Pleasure, Smoky!