Old news....Ghost 2003 will back up and restore Windows 7,,,,,,BUT, then the OS will not boot.

Because in laymen's terms, Ghost 2003 was never designed to handle the new format that came about after Windows XP.
For Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1, Ghost 11.5 is required, if you still want to do your backups in DOS.
Now if you're backing up with some later version of Ghost in Windows, that's another matter all together.

Old guys have Old ways.  What can I say?  Ghost 11.5, run from a DOS boot CD, works GREAT for all OS's from '98 to 8.1.