help me please

[smoky202]

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.)

 

[Katzy]

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.)

 

[smoky202]

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.

 

[Katzy]

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

 

[smoky202]

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

 

[Katzy]

Pleasure, Smoky!