Ok, it worked. I now show three icons in the d drive that are ghost related. Now how would I transfer the boot files from the CD I made to my USB thumb drive?
  This is cool as how it works also. I want to thank you so much. Could I now restore in windows or would I have to still use the boot disk. I know the answer is probably boot disk but wanted to ask anyway. Tdee

I have the utility on my hard drive now. What next?  thanks again

I will try and see where I messed up. It works but I did not get the ghost.exe like you did. I will double check my work and maybe I can see where I goofed up

After you have sorted it out, download

BBIE v1.0 from http://www.nu2.nu/bbie/

MKBISO from http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm#mkbiso

grub4dos-0.4.4-2009-06-20.zip from http://download.gna.org/grub4dos/


EDIT..... What is the drive letter of your CD drive?

I finally got a CD thats works with mouse support. This is so cool. I am ready for more instructions on the flash drive. THANKS THANKS THANKS
also E is my CD drive letter
I have not yet downloaded the programs. I guess I got so excited about the ghost.exe working in dos I forgot.

tdee

I think the following is better than the HP tool method. You can have multiple ISO files on the one flash drive. Each being booted from the menu.

Create a new folder containing these 3 files

bbie.exe
bbie.lic
MKBISO.EXE

Create a New Text Document (Notepad) in this folder and copy/paste/save this into the document



Change X: to your CD drive letter. As your CD drive letter is E: change X: to E:    So your first line would be bbie E:

Rename New Text Document.txt to makeusb.bat. Accept the warning.

Now you have 4 files in the folder.
Put your NightOwl CD in the CD drive
Double click makeusb.bat and a few seconds later you will have..

NIGHTOWL.ISO (in the same folder)

After you have prepared your USB flash drive, NIGHTOWL.ISO will be copied to the drive.

Now to prepare the flash drive. See http://www.themudcrab.com/acronis_grub4dos.php

MudCrab is one of our members. In Section 1 you have already downloaded and unzipped Grub4DOS - ver. 4.4 2009-06-20 . Don't get the Official Release.
Download Installer (ver 1.1)
Follow the instructions in Section 1.

Ignore Section 2. In Section 3, start at "Second, create the Grub4DOS menu.lst file with the entry to start...."   

Instead of downloading MudCrab's menu.lst file, copy/paste/save the following text into a New Text Document.txt and rename it to menu.lst






Now copy NIGHTOWL.ISO and menu.lst to the flash drive. grldr should already be there.

Boot from the flash drive, choose "NightOwl boot CD" (up/down keyboard arrows and press ENTER) and Ghost will open. What do you think?

In Ghost, the flash drive appears as Drive 1. The internal HD is Drive 2.

Here is something useful to add to the flash drive when you are ready. The Ubuntu Netbook Edition ISO (rename the downloaded file to ubuntu.iso)
http://www.ubuntu.com/netbook

Put this in menu.lst



You can surf the internet from your USB flash drive even if there is no HD in the computer. In addition, you can see all your Windows files and folders as Ubuntu is a full OS.