2048 mb's.  Maybe that's why.  It seems as if the pebuilder is just trying to find the file (snapshot) on the hard drive.  At least when I clicked snapshot it gave me option to restore but I think it was the image on the hard drive.  I don't see any option in pebuilder to restore from CD.  

I did try to use Nero and burn in the mode you stated but it did not work for the snapshot file.  Here is the message Nero gave me.

"the backup file is larger than 2GB and therefore cannot be stored in an ISO file system.  Please use the UDF file system to write such large files.  This can be done by selecting another complication type."

If that is the case, does that mean that I would have to maybe put 2 backup files under 2GB's and burn to 2 cd's?

Just one snapshot file now 3,387,291 kb


Could you explain how this is all going to come together.  The restore process using the cd's?

I wrote one using UDF mode and it's ok.  However, when I put the pe in it boots up.  I press the drive snapshot and it comes up asking me to restore a file.  then location.  each and everytime it get's hung there.  Maybe because I don't know what I'm doing.  At that point when it asks for the location of the file, I take the pe disk out and insert the snapshot disk in and that where it hangs up.  Have to press the off button on the laptop.  I also tried it on desktop and gets hung there too.

I downloaded the link that you put in the post.
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
All this is fine if you are the one doing the restore on your own systems but I did mention earlier that I would have liked a cd backup of the entire system because I was selling it and for me to try and explain all that to them would be silly.  But thanks anyways.  I'll look for some other programs that will do the job as Norton Ghost 12 does not do the trick.  And I have no floppy or dvd writer on the laptop.  Don't know if there is anything out there but worth a look.

Only other way I know how to do this is partition the drive and put the restore file on it and use one of the older Ghosts but I really don't want to go that route.

Which one of the Norton Ghosts can you create a bootup disk with a cd writer instead of a floppy?