I am still having problems getting my boot disk. I followed the Easter Egg. After the Create an MS-DOS Start up disk, I closed the box and right clicked on the A drive, but it does not give me the option to delete the files. Do I fomat at this point? I can double left click on A drive to open it,then delete all the files on individually. Is that is what I am supposed to do?

Does the Zipped file from the web  go on the floppy zipped ? If it does, at what point is it unzipped? I want to thank you for your help.

Just want to get this straight. Delete everything from the floppy including the  MODE DOS Application.

Thanks NightOwl.  Yes, a parallel install sounds possible and I will give it a try.  Are there any special precautions that you could give me?  Too bad I can leave off IE and OE during the install as they might overwrite me present installation... or would it?  Come on, talk me into it!

olamoree

I'll be honest--I have only read about doing this--sounded like there would be few issues--any *common* files that are installed should be the same as what was originally installed (I'm assuming you are using the same installlation CD--I noted you said originally you had WinXP SP1--and then used a *slip-streamed WinXP SP2 in one of your latter attempts to solve the problems--mixin' and matchin' can have unknown effects!).

And, because you are not re-formatting--any files and settings since the first install that are not part of the install should be untouched by the second install--like data files--but the new install will not *inherit* the settings of the previous install--unless the *config or ini* files are a shared item that do not get over-written during install.

But, persumably, those are mute points if your intention is to use Ghost 10 to restore your previous backup image using the *Recovery Disk*--the *new install* will have never existed once you use the image and restore the C:\ partition. 

You must use the *Recovery Disk*--you can not restore an OS partition that you are running Ghost 10 from!

Make sure you are restoring the *master boot record* as part of the restore!

Of course--you have done a bunch of things to the system trying to trouble shoot--hard to say what unknow *kinks* may occur doing a second install! 

And, did you do an integrity check on that original backup image to be sure it's good?  And everything hinges on a successful restore using Ghost--sometimes that doesn't work out for some folks for whatever reason!

Night Owl everytime I try to put Ghost into the floppy it says the disk is full. When I check properties it isn't. There is an empty Ghost folder on the floppy. What am I supposed to look for in the program file. There is Ghost with .98MB in it. I have tried[ copy and paste] also[ send to]. I didn't actually see anything that said Ghost EXE.

olamoree

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Well,....it all depends on how important your data is on that drive.  You said it's a FAT32 partition--you have a Win98 system that can read FAT32 partitions--you have options....

You could get another HDD and another copy of Ghost and *clone* the current *bad* HDD to the other HDD--use the new other HDD clone to do the parallel install so that the original is still untouched for possible future recovery if things don't go well on the *test* HDD.  If the parallel install works and you are able to recovery the other Ghost 10 *Recovery Disk* .iso, able to use it to restore your image successfully--you're back in business--with a spare HDD to use for whatever.

If something goes wrong, you still have your original to work with for some other try.

Basically--each time you have tried some *recovery* effort, you have been at risk of loosing it all, being as the system is flakey and not responding in a positive fashion.

You will have to decide how fast you want to proceed--and, what additional precautions to take--unfortunately, I have no way to know if your Ghost image will work successfully on your system--only you can determine that--and you have to make the decision as to how to *safely* proceed from here.

You have never answered the question as to whether you can access the Ghost *Recovery Disk* .iso that's needed to create the *Recovery Disk*--if you can get that and have the *Recovery Disk* burned on someone else's system--you would at least have that to work with--I would still want to have a spare HDD and try my recovery to the spare HDD and keep the original for safe keeping until I knew everything was going to work okay.