My ghost image will not boot into Windows. The integrity test is successful and the files seem to be okay as the test is done. After the memory check and one beep I get a blinking cursor and the floppy drive light is on for 10 seconds and there it hangs. This is Ghost2003 and Norton no longer gives support. I have restored the image several times to the C: drive and tried all I know to. The .gho image starts in sector 63. Could there be something on the drive that prevents .gho image to be seem? Help appreciated.

Is the hard drive you created the image from the same size as the one you are putting the image on?

Did you ghost a Disk to an image or a Partition to an image? I should state right up front that I have the original Ghost Professional 5.0 from Binary Research. (The company Symantec bought it from.) So what I have to offer from here on in may not be of value. But the first question is.

run fdisk and see the partition info, is it set to active? you can ghost the image to different size drive as long as it will fit the drive. Is this the new drive?

A second to Dan Penny's post. It sounds like you did a 'partition' image. If you did, that will not work. A partition image does not save the Master Boot Record.

I have used both Image to Partition and Partition to Partition and they both boot fine so long as you set the drive as Active as Bud noted. I am however curious about your statement of "The .gho image starts in sector 63." I have used Ghost a number of times and have never seen a notation anywhere that suggested which sector it was working on or starting from or any other reference to the sectors. Can you advise where you saw that? If still no joy then do explain exactly what you have and are doing with what. eg. .gho image is on second hard drive and you are using Ghost from a floppy disk to dump the image onto the first partition of the first hard drive. Bryan

Thanks for the comments. I will try to give a little more info. This was my orignal post on Jan 1. "I am trying to find a good backup for my home system by "practicing" on an old Thinkpad. I made an extended, logical partition on the only HDD with Partition Magic. Using Norton Ghost 2003 basic (from System Works) in DOS I was able to ghost the main partition into an image in the extended partition. I tested the image and then copied (dumped) the backup image back into its original location. Now the image is there, but I cannot boot into Windows. The problem is likely caused by Boot Magic that was installed earlier. I can get to all drives, including CD with start up and rescue disks." The sector infomation is from the BootMagic Vs 4 rescue diskette, partinfo.exe.. I have only one HDD, a C: drive 2 gig and extended logial D: drive 1 gig.