I've heard that there's a way to run norton ghost completly from the command prompt in dos, and not go through the wizard thing norton provides when you run ghoste.exe. If this is so does anyone know a site that would list the commands to for example, start and image. The reason I want to do this is as follows: I want to be able to map a network drive in the computer I am backing up, then go to start --> run and type the command to have ghost create an image of my local drive and save that image to the mapped dive. Then I'll take the image off the mapped drive, which is located at a computer with a cd burner, and burn the image onto a cd. I've seen it done, and it was done with several dos commands (and switches ) typed in run. I just need to find the dos commands. Any suggesstions?

I don't think you need to go to all this trouble. All you need to do is map the network drive. Using the Ghost interface, you can write an image to that mapped network drive.

If you try to image while in Windows you will miss items that are in use. You need to image from DOS. Below is from the Help file: Run Norton Ghost Explorer from command line You can start Ghost Explorer from an MS-DOS prompt by typing its path and name. For example: c:\progra~1\symantec\Norton~1\ghostexp You might need to replace norton~1 in the path with norton~2, norton~3, and so on, depending on how many other Norton products are installed on your computer. If Ghost Explorer is in the current directory, or in a directory on your PATH, you do not need to type the pathname. You can also provide a Ghost image file as an argument for Ghost Explorer to open. For example: ghostexp n:\images\myimage.gho If Ghost Explorer reports a corruption in your image file, you may be able to get further details of the nature of the corruption. Normally, you only use these options when asked to do so by Ghost Explorer Technical Support. Start the program with one of the following arguments: -d1 Reports on corruptions or significant events in FAT file systems. -d2 Reports on corruptions or significant events in NTFS file systems. -d4 Reports on corruptions or significant events in Linux file systems. The reports are presented to you as dialog boxes. You can use all switches, or use -d3 to turn on the first two options, or –d7 to run all three options. Ghost Explorer has a batch mode where it carries out a single command and then exits. In this version, batch mode supports only the saving of the contents listing to a text file. To use this mode, specify one of the following switches: -t Save the list of directories in the dump file to a file with the same name as the image file but with an extension of .txt. -tf Save a list of directories and files. -tv Save a verbose listing of directories and files. -t[vf]=filename Save the list to the file specified. See Save Contents for more details on this command. If Ghost Explorer reports that a spanned or split image is corrupt, without ever prompting for the second part of the image, it may not recognize that the image is split. Starting with the -split argument forces Ghost Explorer to treat an image as a split image. The image index created by versions of Norton Ghost prior to 5.1c did not correctly handle long file names containing double byte characters, such as file names in Asian or Eastern European languages. Ghost Explorer may be able to display these names properly by reading them directly from the image file instead of from the index, although the loading of the image will be much slower. Use the switch -ignoreindex to force this behavior. (c) Copyright 1998-2000, Symantec Corporation