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I believe that when using *NIC auto detect* function, the program doing the *auto-detecting* has to write the results to the *boot disk*.  And a bootable CD will not be writable to.

I'm not personally familiar with this, but I've seen reference by others about creating a *ram drive* as part of the boot process, and *re-directing* any write functions to that *ram drive* to hold whatever per session write-to-disk files are needed.

Whether that would work with *NIC auto detect*--I don't know--but it may point you in the right direction for testing.

New Post Here... This is what I did to get a Boot CD with access to CD Drives for new OS installations and with Ghost access for restoring drive images is case of disasters.

First I used Bart's BootDisk from http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/cdrom/
I followed the auto create steps and made the floppy.

I booted the floppy to configure it to use ATAPI CDs and it saved that configuration to the floppy.

I then used DD.EXE found at http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/aboutdd/
to create an image of the floppy.

I then used Nero to create a Boot CD, using the newly created floppy image file for the base and adding a \ghost directory containing ghost.exe that can be accessed after the CD boots to the cd drives.

This Boot Cd allows access to Ghost for restoring images, and it also allows access straight to CDs where you can execute initial OS installations.

Hope this helps someone.

Tom

Erge

Need a little more information--you're leaving too much to *assumption* as to what we know about what you have done.

Are you using NeroExpress--(I assume so based on the *DosBootimage.IMA* file reference)?

What version of NeroExpress?

erge

NeroExpress is designed to work only with a 1.44 MB boot disk--if you have the full Nero program (NeroExpress is a *lite* version and has fewer options than the *full* program), using *Advanced Settings*, you can make Nero work with the larger 2.88 MB boot disk option.

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Yes, the boot sector on bootable optical media is *hidden* from *normal* Windows programs that show files.

Special programs such as *UltraISO* and *IsoBuster* will show the *hidden boot sector* and show an indication if the disc is *bootable*.  These programs will allow you to *extract* that boot image to your HDD, and then you can manipulate the boot files with various programs like WinImage, etc.

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The content of the *boot sector* can not be seen (without using one of the special programs mentioned above)--data stored on the data portion of the CD can be seen with standard programs that access files.

Hi Owl,

I got another issue as to how to create boot image for USB Flash or External HD with USB interface. I guess both devices share same mechanism.

How do I burn the image?

hi all.

1rst of all, my english isn't very good, i will try to explain the better a can.

i can't call ghost.exe when a make a bootale cd.

i used ghost 8.2. i choosed a boot disk with the option to use network and i made all changes in config.sys n autoexec.bat.

it works everything fine until the part of executing ghost.

if anyone understud what i tried to explain, help pls

thankx

Had a similar problem, and after a lot of headbanging, settled for a hardware solution - bought one of those little enclosures that turn any notebook hard drive into an external USB 2.0 drive ( ~$20 ). Pulled the HD out of the laptop, stuck it in the enclosure, plugged it into another computer and pulled all the data off of it. Since then, I've kept the little puppy around, and have used this solution an additional 3-4 times to recover files before doing full rebuilds of the laptop OS.