I have scoured this board, the internet, forums everywhere, spent hours trying this and made dozens of coasters. Here is the situation: Making a bootable Ghost CD from a Ghost floppy for use in a computer, say a laptop for example without a floppy drive, is very simple. Simple if you are using Ghost 7.5 or earlier where all the boot disks created are just a single floppy. We are now strictly using Ghost 8 here. To my great irritation, Ghost 8 uses 2 floppies and renders all my Ghost 7.5 boot disks useless. Along the road I had made many Ghost boot CDs using my Ghost 7.5 floppys using any burning software that lets you make a bootable CD by first inserting a bootable floopy. But how can this be done when 2 floppies must be used in the creation of the bootable CD? Every burning application I've tried asks you to insert a single bootable disk. There is never an option for a 2nd floopy. After that first disk's contents are done being copied, your only choice is to burn the CD. I've tried creating the bootable CD using the 1st of the 2 Ghost 8 disk set, then copying the Ghost.exe which is on Floppy 2 to the hard drive of the computer. The problem here is, when you boot from a CD that was created from a bootable floppy, you are stuck in this little 3.5" inch floopy world and all you can see is what was on the disk. What frustrates me even further is that you would think something like this would be so easy to make and that it would be a choice from the menu when you lauch the Ghost Boot Wizard. There is a Ghost CD\DVD option, but all that does is create a floopy with drivers that load your CD or DVD drive. There are so many benefits of lauching Ghost from a CD, especially in the case of Ghost 8 where 2 floppies are used. It loads so much faster from a CD, plus I would have to sit and wait until floppy 1 is done, then insert floppy 2, hit enter. Does anyone know how to create a CD based off of 2 Ghost 8 floppies? I would be in your debt forever. My job is basically to ghost machines all day long and this CD would really help speed things up. Thanks in advance for any suggestion or help!!

When you use a floppy to create a bootable CD all you are doing is creating a image from the boot floppy. In effect making the CD boot like a floppy. You can copy the Ghost files to the CD and burn then at the same time. The CD will boot to drive A: and the ghost files will be in the next available drive letter. Stuart

Have you tried to save the files on the two floppy's to your hard drive (to one file) and then burn a bootable CD using the file from the hard drive? Make sure the file option is set to show all hidden files before saving it to the hard drive. I did this when I made all the XP boot disks and got fustrated the way you did with the having to sit there while it worked to execute the next disk. I used all six floppys and made one bootable CD out of them.

I will give this a shot and report back. Thanks for your help!

hapeekrapee can you tell me how you save 2 floopies to a single file on your HD? Save the 2 floppies to 1 file as what type of file? an .iso? In the past, I had used UltraISO to take the contents of both disks to create an .iso and burn a bootable CD with that .iso but the bootable CD only showed the contents of one of the disks, even though the .iso itself had all the data. Thanks for the suggestions you guys. I'll keep trying.

Hi there, DonaldB. Your situation is very similar to the one I was in last week. I too tried many methods of creating a Ghost boot disk with no success, until I suddenly realized I had a stack of them in my Ghost backups. All you have to do is boot the first CD or DVD from a previous Ghost backup (If you've made it bootable of course) and follow the prompts. There is no mouse support, so you navigate using TAB, ARROW KEYS and ENTER. Make sure your BIOS is set correctly to boot from CD. If you want your CD or DVD backup disk to be bootable, Ghost asks you to insert a bootable floppy into A:\. Ted.

Guys thank you for all your suggestions. Unfortunately, I still cannot get it to work. I got close though, using Bart's BootCD website for guidance: http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/ I was able to get the contents of both Ghost 8 disks onto a CD. The CD boots, loads the network driver, and then halts saying Command.com cannot be found. This is strange since the command.com is sitting right there along with the rest of the files. I can then just manually type Command.com and hit enter and I get an A:\ prompt. I can type Ghost at this point and it will launch Ghost only the network options are greyed out so its useless. I've also starting experimenting with WinImage 7 which is a nice little program that lets you create bootable images, etc. Unfortunately, I can never get any of the bootable images I create with it work work once burned to a CD. Any other suggestions? This has gotten to the point where I really, really want to get this working because its angered me and I want to smash the comptuer.