I have a Dell C-840 laptop 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, Win XP SP3.  When I boot with NightOwl's CD, it loads okay but the GUI on the screen is unreadable.  The blue-pebbly background is fine but everything in the rectangular window is extremely pixelated making it impossible to use the program.  (This same CD has worked fine on my desktop.)  

Anyone have any thoughts on a fix?

Thanks,
john98225

john98225.

You can use WinImage to change the format of your .ima to 2.88 MB. Then you can add mouse.com and any other files before you make your CD.

John,

I just did this and it works.

Using the WinImage GUI, I made an .ima of a Win98SE floppy. From WinImage, Image, change format, 2.88, save, inject extra files, save.

Using UltraISO, File, New, Bootable CD/DVD Image, find the .ima, open, save. Burnt the .iso with ImgBurn. The CD was bootable.

We did tests recently on using WinImage from the command line. The CDs weren't bootable. It only works if you use the GUI.

Brian -

I appreciate your help here but I'm pretty sure it's not going to work for me.

I just tried it again, from WinImage's GUI.  This time I used the exact file composition outlined by NightOwl - only change was I ticked the 2.44 box as you suggested.  Created the .ima file, burnt it with Nero 6 (where I have to switch out the .ima file at the last minute; the only way it will read the boot image file).  Tried to boot with the CD on both my old laptop and my new dual-core desktop; still just the black screen with blinking cursor.

Actually, it's working fine for me with the 1.44 image since I really don't like to use a mouse with Ghost's GUI anyway.  (Only time it's really nice is when you want to go up a level or create a new file.)

Anyway, thanks again -

John

if you have this problem do again the step by step but change ghost.exe with a new one that you need to create from ghost boot wizard do not create floppy boot up wth standard ghost boot disk but use cd/dvd starup disk with ghost this will create 2 floppy from the second floopy open the folder name ghost and copy ghost.exe to step by step using winimage  makeshore before you save click on image and select boot properties and select 95/98 and clivk ok them save as
type bootcd1.ima

Thanks for the input, elcubanito.  

I'm a little unclear ... do I still use all of the extracted files from the Win98se boot disk or use files from the Ghost boot floppy?  Also, are you trying to show me how to make a boot CD that will have display.sys along with mouse.com?

Thanks,
John

some laptop only come with regular cd-rom so when you do it this way and created a boot cd not dvd you will able to boot from any  desktop