As Rebel says, your BIOS isn't seeing any HDs,so for all practical purposes,
there aren't any. That's why the copy operations failed, that's why you
can't see C:\ from A:\.. You need to check all drives, their jumpers and
connections, and then check the BIOS to see if there isn't some
Auto-detection routine. Otherwise, reset the CMOS. And since that's such an
old machine, consider the wisdom of replacing the battery while you're at it
(the CMOS battery, a quarter-sized watch-style battery.)

You don't mention make or model of your machine, so there's no way to help
you in any more detail.

PS -- Star Office 5 didn't come with Windows. It came with the computer.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"grafxfriday" wrote in message
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This was a breeze last time I did this, after I installed (2) 128MB SDRAM
Memory. This is an old computer I am using for desktop publishing. It is
my
wish to get as much off the hard drive as I can so I can have as much
workspace as possible. I will be loading Pagemaker and Photoshop on again
when finished restoring and eventually get a newer computer.
I have nothing on the hd I need at this time.
Ok, my two main problems appear to be 1. "can't create extraction
directory"
and
2. "invalid drive specification".
The options for a RESTORE of my hard drive are
1. Restore WIN 98 will format HDD
2. Restore WIN 98 will NOT format HDD
3. Boot to DOS Prompt from CDROM
F5=safe mode,Shift+F5=command prompt,Shift+F8=step by step confirmation. I
picked
#1 and step by step this time as to read the errors.
Here are where the errors occurred:
a:\unzip - od c:\windows\system R:\winsys.img [Enter=Y,Esc=N] Y
check dir: can't create extraction directory:c:\windows\system
a:\unzip - od c:\windows\R:\winother.img[]Y
check dir: can't create extraction directory:c:\windows
copy a:\winstart.bat c:\windows\winstart.bat[]Y
Invalid Drive Specification
copy a:\lfnbk.exe c:windows\lfnbk.exe[]Y
Invalid Drive Specification
cls[]Y
cd\[]Y
cls[]Y
ECHO[]Y
ECHO WINDOWS 98 RESTORE COMPLETE[]Y
WIN98 RESTORE COMPLETE
ECHO - - - - - - - - []Y
---------- ECHO THE HARD DRIVE IMAGE HAS BEEN RESTORED[]Y
THDIHBR
ECHO PRESS ANY KEY THE SYSTEM WILL BE REBOOT[]Y
PAKTSWBR
ECHO **STORE THE CDROM IN A SAFE LOCATION!**[]Y
STCIASL
ECHO[]Y
a:\Ejected.exe r:[]Y
Press any key to reboot your computer.
There you have it the two errors. I abbreviated some of the echo repeats.
Obviously
when I press any key it wants to boot from the cd,error 200,204 insert cd.
I looked around the Bios and here's what it says:
SETUP-Primary hd is ATAPI CDROM. LBA on,BLOCK on, 32bit on,PIO auto. The
Secondary
is the same. Primary and Secondary Slave are not installed.
Floppy A(broken, I had an external (usb) floppy driver as well as a flash
drive (usb)
I was working off of). Floppy B not installed.
ADVANCED-Quick Boot disabled, 1st Boot Device:1st IDE-HDD,2nd BD:ATAPI
CDROM, 3rd:2nd
IDE-HDD.
There you have it. I hope this is a clear picture of my problem as I know
your time
is valuable. Much gratitude.
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"grafxfriday" wrote:

I have done this before without a hitch. This time I made the mistake of
uninstalling software that came with Windows, Star Office 5.0. When I
insert
the eMachine cd then do 1. Restore format HDD it seems to work then a
very
brief error message "can't crate extraction dir", then continual error
message, "can't create C:/OFFICE51" and "unable to process". Then the
screen
says image restores then reboots and asks for Restore setup. I have 5
books
from the library but they seem to be for WIN 95. I can view BIOS, but dos
won't go to C from A. Thanks in advance for your brillancy!
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