I'm trying to update a single Ghost 2003 bootable disk that I used to use to make bootable image CD/DVDs of my computers. I have a newer computer with different EHCI (USB internal DVD-RAM/CD drive) than my computers in the past. Currently, my boot floppy looks like this: IO.SYS MSDOS.SYS COMMAND.COM GHOST <DIR> MSCDEX.EXE Usbaspi.sys USBCD.sys HIMEM.sys config.sys autoexecbat.sys As you can see in the contents of the floppy disk, I've already downloaded and added the new Panasonic USBASPI.SYS and USBCD.SYS files. Here are the contents of my config.sys file: device=HIMEM.SYS device=USBASPI.SYS device=USBCD.SYS /dUSBCD001 Here are the contents of my autoexec.bat: @echo off SET TZ=GHO+06:00 MSCDEX /d:USBCD001 cls pause CD GHOST GHOST.EXE -clone,mode=load,src=E:\CDR00001.GHO,dst=1-SURE -FX -QUIET -BATCH So, I insert a DVD into my computers drive, plug in the USB floppy drive, and boot the computer off the floppy disk. Everything goes fine, the computer boots off the floppy, Ghost recognizes my DVD/CD drive (where it wasn't with the old disk), and I make my image. The problem is, that before buring the DVD, Ghost asks me if I want to make the disk bootable, and I answer yes, because of course that's what I want. Then Ghost asks me if I have the bootable floppy in the drive, which I do (this is the disk I booted the computer with) and Ghost proceeds to copy to the files to the DVD and burns the disk. So, after the disk is burned, I leave it in the drive to test it; to see if it actually works. The computer starts up, begins booting off the DVD, finds my DVD drive, then reports the following errors: The following is missing or corrupted: USBCD.SYS. There is an error in your config.sys file on line 3 The following is missing or corrupted: COMMAND.COM. Type the name of the command interpreter (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM) A> And of course the disk won't boot up. I can use it to image my computer in conjunction with the floppy disk, but I can't make the DVD bootable, even though Ghost copies the files over to the CD. Does anyone have a clue as to what I'm doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!

So let me see if I understand you correctly: you wan't to make a bootable DVD copy of your XP OS that runs from the hard drive already; you want to make an image of your primary partition on a DVD, and you want to include a boot record on the DVD as well, so that you can just boot from the DVD drive and have the same thing as you would if you booted the computer normally? If so, I'm thinking that your using DOS as the OS to boot into is the problem, since XP is an NT OS which doesn't use DOS. Further, you can't even access NTFS file systems from DOS without special utilities. If I understand the problem correctly, Ghost is copying the boot record from the floppy to the DVD, so you're booting into DOS and not XP. The best way to do what you are attempting, in my opinion, is to either purchase a pre-installation environment CD from Microsoft, or make your own legal version using the BartPE method. As far as I understand, you cannot have a purely standalone, live-cd for XP, like you can with various *nix versions.