Ok, slow down and let's take one thing at a time. First you say you can't create a CD with the image, now you say the boot disc tells you the CD wasn't created with Norton Ghost. If you can't create a CD then how are you getting to the point of the boot disk telling you the CD isn't correct?

okay here's my situation - recap comp1 has the burner - i can make an image and save it directly to bootable CDs and restore my entire C drive using those disks comp2 does not have a burner i can ghost the HDD but it has the image to a file on a separate partition. ie: drive D: I want to make bootable CDs just like what I have for comp1 now someone said to make ghost boot disks from comp2 and use those to make a boot CD with nero. Steps I have taken 1) made the boot disks in comp2 2) made a ghost image in comp2 and tranfered the file over to comp1 via network 3) trying to make boot CDs in comp1 using the boot disk created from comp2 and the ghost image created from comp2 this thing burns and does boot up - but when I try to restore from the CD - it says that the CD wasnt created by norton - so i'm stuck and i cant restore. comp 2 is a laptop - I can either have a floppy drive or a CDrom Drive Money not an issue? Where do you live and when are you not home? I'm not gonna rob you, I'm just gonna steal some stuff

Try to map the drive on Comp 2 to comp 1 then create the image of that drive using Ghost installed on comp 2. As I stated in response #6, you don't need a floppy to restore an image. Simply boot to the Ghost CD and then provide the CD image as requested. The following is an excerpt from the Ghost PDF files: Note: If you saved your image file directly to CD or DVD, then you do not need a recovery boot disk. Norton Ghost includes Ghost.exe if you save the image file to CD or DVD.

How can i ghost across a network? that peer-to-peer option while i was in dos mode was greyed out and cant be selected. How do i map a drive so that norton can ghost it fully? I'm going away for a couple months thats why I need a ghost image - and i'd rather not be walking around with my norton ghost CD. Money not an issue? Where do you live and when are you not home? I'm not gonna rob you, I'm just gonna steal some stuff

For ease and simplicity at this point, could you just take the burner out of comp1 and put it in comp2 and mimick the exact steps you did on comp1 to make an image?

i'd like to do that but comp2 is a laptop and comp1 is a desktop Money not an issue? Where do you live and when are you not home? I'm not gonna rob you, I'm just gonna steal some stuff

Ok here's another option. I'm not sure why the boot disk is complaining about Norton not making the CD so let's try something different. Go to www.bootdisk.com and download a bootdisk creation file. Now create a bootdisk. somewhere on your Ghost CD you should have a file called ghostpe.exe. Move that to the bootdisk you just made. Now boot with that disk, create the image, then go back into Windows. Launch Nero, tell it to create a bootable CD and point it at the bootdisk you just made. Then When the Nero Explorer window comes up drag the image file over to the other side and burn the image.

Just make a copy of the Ghost CD. What's the big deal, one more CD. If you have a typical installation your Ghost image will span many CDs anyway. I don't use XP but in Win98 there is an option in the file tab to map network drives. Try the help files in windows if use don't see it. I have Ghost as part of Systemworks Pro 2003 and it has network options.

Go here and look at response number 4.

Hey all, If you are using ghost 8 or some earlier versions you can create CD/DVD Startup disk with ghost (Ghost boot disk with generic CD rom drivers for reading disks that were not created with Ghost) I had this same problem when burning split images as isos with Nero - the alternative boot disk worked fine for that problem. Hope this helps.