Janset

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Ghost32 is a version of the DOS based Ghost that is designed to run under various versions of Windows--i.e. it does not run by itself--Windows must be up and running to execute the *ghost32.exe* program.  It opens a *command* window within whatever version of Windows you are running and performs the Ghost procedure from there!

You can be running Ghost32 from your version of Windows that's installed on your HDD, if you multiboot and have a second OS running on a separate partition--you can run Ghost32 from there and make an image of an *inactive* partition with the second OS on it, you can create a BartPE and run Ghost32 from that boot disc--now you are running Ghost32 from RAM and booting from the optical disc, or you can run Ghost32 from the various Windows PE boot discs (if you know how to do that!).

So, even though you have put Ghost32 on a USB stick, you are actually booted to and running your Windows programs (including Ghost32) from your main HDD--and you have opened a command Window using your current OS on the HDD. 

Is your HDD a single partition for your OS and data files?  If you attempt to save an image file to the same partition that you are running Ghost32 from, you have a program conflict--as you save the file, the partition you are saving is being altered by the creation of the saved file--it's an endless loop and it will not work!!!

In order for Ghost to make an image file of your active Windows OS, it must take a *snapshot* of a given moment that represents the state of all the files of the OS partition, and then record that moment in time as the frozen point in time to place in the image file--but the image file is not static--you are creating it at the same time!  If you were saving the file to another destination (another partition, a second internal HDD, an optical disk, a network HDD, an external USB HDD or flashdrive, etc.), then I think everything would probably work okay!