Hunterr3, it appears that your objective may be better suited to the use of one component of the ‘corporate’ (rather than retail) version of Ghost 10:  Symantec LiveState Delivery.

P.S.:  Note that the license agreement for Ghost 10 prohibits its use on more than one PC.

hunterr3

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I believe Ghost 10 (and Ghost 9) do not support creating a bootable optical disc like the previous DOS based Ghost programs did (Ghost 2003 and corporate Ghost 7.5 and 8.xx).

You have to use a Ghost 10 Recovery Disk, that boots to the Ghost Recovery Environment--and then you could access a Ghost image stored on an optical disc.

hunterr3

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Unfortunately, Symantec has followed a new path (hot imaging--where you do not have to boot to DOS) for the *consumer retail* versions of Ghost--the corporate versions continue up through v8.xx (which is still supported)--still use DOS as the functional OS (except, there is a *Ghost32.exe*--version 8.xx that works in a command box under Windows--but can not image the OS partition under which it is running!)

The current latest version (what would have been Ghost 11) is no longer called *Ghost*, but *Save and Restore*--which I think is appropriate--Ghost origins was a HDD imaging tool--Symantec has made it more of a *Backup Program*

Most likely, this was done to discourage *file sharing* of the Ghost exe file for running under DOS without purchasing a license--activation of Ghost 10 is required.

Hhunterr3, I believe it would be worthwhile to add another perspective onto the comments provided by NightOwl in Reply #5.

• The most current enterprise imaging products sold by Symantec do in fact use ‘hot imaging’ rather than a DOS-based approach.  This suite of tools in the corporate environment is promoted under the label “Backup Exec” and “LiveState”.
• Norton Save & Restore is a package of two tools in one:  (1) a file backup utility plus (2) Ghost 10.  All of the imaging functionality of Ghost 10 is contained therein.  So, it still very much an imaging tool and not simply a “backup program.”

To learn more about hot imaging, you may wish to visit this thread.

Hunterr3, no - I was not implying that Ghost 10 would support a bootable DVD image.

hunterr3 wrote on Aug 1^st, 2006 at 9:12am:

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