How was the image 'ghosted'?  How was the disk prepared before the image was
'ghosted'?  What does the imaging software say about using a 'ghosted' image
with a boot disk?

Why are you trying to boot this image?  If the machine is not the same one
where Windows was originally installed you will have a lot of difficulty
getting Widows to run. If you didn't create this disk on the machine where
you are trying to run it then you might not even get the machine to read the
disk at all.

You probably didn't use Ghost correctly to create an exact copy.

This might help:

Boot from a floppy that has FDISK.exe on it.  To create a boot floppy,
go to another computer with win-98 and put in a blank floppy and open
a DOS window.  In the window, type this:  "sys a:".  Then find
fdisk.exe and put a copy of it on the floppy.

Once you boot this floppy on the computer with the problem, run fdisk
at the dos prompt.  If it asks you about large drive support, answer
yes.

You will then get a menu of 4 or 5 things you can do.  One of them is
to set the bootable partition or active partition (sorry, I'm going by
memory here).  Most likely your drive isin't set correctly to have an
active partition.  Once it's set, you should be able to boot from it
(assuming Ghost did everything else correctly).

"ghosted" hard drive can mean one of two things.  An image file(s) were
created when copying the entire hard drives partition, and restored to
another hard drive.  OR, the hard drive is a copied version where imaging
was not utilized in the copy.

If you didn't move the hard drive to another PC, go to the last paragraph.

There may be problems moving a hard drive from one PC to another PC.  This
usually manifests itself when first accessed.  Files and folders may be not
in the anticipated location.   This is especially important with operating
system boot files (symptom of your message).

When moving an image file from one PC to another PC, it should be in some
univeral format like on CD or DVD in iso 8660 format.  This is commonly used
format used by commercial CDs for PCs.  From that media, the image of the
hard drive should be restored to an onboard hard drive.  That hard drive
should be in the PC you intend it to operate in.

A COPIED hard drive, using whether ghost or some other hard drive copying
application, will make the copied hard drive suitable to work in the PC its
located in at the time.  But, sometimes puts the boot files in the wrong
location.  But, the hard drives FAT is usually correct and the filesystem is
still accessible.  Reinstalling windows on this hard drive in the same PC
should do no harm to personal files.  Usually, all that is needed is to have
the system boot files in the proper location of the boot sector of the boot
partition.  This is done with a boot floppy using a small program called
sys.com which is an ms-dos file.  This is a common malady when copying a
hard drive.  A restored image has much better success.