xp restore cd

[atdatd]

i am trying to restore my windows xp on an emachine to original factory settings. when i pop the disk in i am getting an error that says cant read R:\E17F.GHO. What is that and how can i get this thing working?

[CoffeeFiend]

The rescue disc was made with ghost. I'm not sure if the drive letter is hardcoded on the (emulated) floppy or what not. Perhaps the disc could be damaged too? What letters do the drives mount as?

Try copying it to your computer, see if it can read the whole file fine. If that works, maybe try making a bootcd with the original win98se floppy to boot (or a bart boot floppy or such) and ghost + the image on the disc to restore manually (or you can make a batchfile look for the image files and start ghost by yourself...)