Brock114
Quote:I used Norton Ghost 2003 to make a 3 disc spanned volume set. It works fine but I want to put all three image files on a DVD.
When you say 'it works fine', do you mean you have used the 3 disc spanned volume set to boot Ghost (did you make the CD set 'bootable'?), and have done an integrity check and Ghost says the spanned set passes the integrity check--right?
Did you use the 'Windows' interface for Ghost to create the 3 CD disc spanned volume set image? Have you tried using the 'Windows' interface to do the 'integrity check' or a 'restore' from the three files of the image set copied to the DVD? In the 'Advanced settings....', you may need to select the 'CD Drivers' tab, and check 'Assign drive letters to CD/DVD drives' option if you're doing things from the Windows interface for Ghost.
What OS are you using? Win9x, WinXP?
What file system are you using? Fat32, NTFS?
I think 'Jon' was right--and wrong, probably:
Based on a number of posts in this forum and elsewhere, it appears that for certain CD/DVD drives, Ghost can 'write' to the optical drive without assigning a drive letter, but to read the image file(s) for an integrity check or restore operation, Ghost needs a drive letter assigned to the optical drive. And this seems to be especially true if image files are copied to an optical media from some other source rather than being written directly by Ghost to the optical media in the first place.
As Jon said, you may want to use the 'CD/DVD Startup Disk for Ghost' boot disk, but you want Nero to make the DVD bootable--but the 'CD/DVD Startup Disk for Ghost' is a two floppy disk set, and you will not be able to use a two floppy disk set if Nero works the same as Roxio's Easy CD Creator v5.xx. I do not have Nero, but I think it operates very similarly to Easy CD Creator. So, if you want to make the DVD bootable without using a floppy dirve, and the 'Windows' interface above did not work:
Try this:
In Roxio, I open the program, click on 'File' menu option, 'New CD Project', 'Bootable CD'.
In the 'Choose Type of Bootable CD' I selected 'Floppy Disk Emulation (1.44 MB)' and selected 'Generate Image from Floppy. Please insert a bootable floppy disk in drive A and click OK.'
Insert a Win98se or WinME system boot floppy (these have CD/DVD ROM drivers that assign drive letters to the optical drives and are a single boot floppy--not a two disk boot floppy set) and the program will read the bootable floppy and added 'bootcat.bin' and 'bootimg.bin' to the lower screen where the files to be burned to the CD are listed.
Then add 'ghost.exe' to the root directory of the DVD to be burned, and the three image files to be added the the DVD.
Burn the DVD.
Now boot the DVD. You should end up at an A:\ prompt. Do a 'change drive' command to the drive letter assigned to the optical drive and type 'ghost' and you should have ghost loaded. The optical drive letter should be listed as a source drive and the ghost image file should be selectable to do an integrity check.
To summarize:
1. Does the 3 disk CD image set pass the integrity check?
2. Can you use the Ghost Windows interface on the laptop to access and use the three image files burned to the non-bootable DVD--with or without Ghost assigning a drive letter to the optical drive?
3. Can you make a bootable DVD using Nero with a boot disk that assigns a drive letter to the optical drive and now successfully access the three image files burned to the DVD?
Did it work?