Hi, I am very new in IT so please forgive me if I am thinking beyond possibilities. We have more than 100 Similar PCs running Win2k and other applications. Now on systems reload,we pull the hard-disk from PC, hook it up in our machine run, Symantec Ghost and put the required image on HD.Then we fix the HD back to PC. Now is there a way to have a bootable CD which boots up and run symantec ghost,promt for the image CD and loads the image. The image size is 2 gig so definately more than one cd is needed..can it span asking for next CD until finishes. Please help me out..maybe somewhere someone is doing this can I use your trick? Cheers Imroz..

Buy Ghost 7.0 or higher.

This may take some time but worth it in the long run. Setup a PC how you want it with programs and the like. Go to one of the download sites (ie Tucows, PC Mag) and download a program or get it off the W2K disk called sysprep 1.1. Read the instructions it's fairly easy. Run the sysprep.exe -pnp This strip all ACL and Tokens, as well as the PNP equipment from the W2K system. It will then shut down the machine. Put in your Ghose disk and create your image. Now you can burn that image to any desktop that meets the requirements of Sysprep. After you burn the image you put that image on your new HD and run it. When W2K boots it will go out and reload all the PNP items, reset up network connections, recreate ACL and Tokens for that machine. It will load everything that you had on the original image (ie. Office, Mail,)what ever software was on the orignal image.

Thanks A1 But this is somewhat similar to what we are doing now. WE copy across the image and then run ghost... What I wanted to do was to format a machine, insert a cd it will startup symantec ghost and then will ask for image (which will be in CDR) and this will then complete the installation.

if you're on a network, put your image into it, create a boot disk with network support and ghost on it, and then, pick up your image file on the network ;D

Check out the following site: http://www/nu2.nu/ Goto the boot/bootable cd link. Find the section on ghost or el-ghost. Very interesting stuff. Even for newbies.