Looking down thru this thread I can get lost in all the technicality.
Being a corn fed boy from Iowa, I like to keep things as simple as possible.
(K.I.S.S.)
(Keep It Simple Stupid)
All the work-arounds for NOT having a floppy drive just aren't worth all the hassle.
Don't have one......GET ONE!
If you can't mount a Floppy Drive in your current PC, then pick up an external (USB) floppy drive. They are cheap at about $19 ea. and work exactly like an internal drive.
And, you can use just the one drive on many different computers.
Ok enough on that.
Ghost 2003 running on your HD has a routine to make a boot floppy. That's the way it was written. ONLY that floppy can be used to make a bootable DVD backup of your hard drive.
Now, from a boot floppy, using any decent burning program like NERO, you can make a bootable CD which looks and acts exactly like the boot floppy.
Using the HP program to make a flash drive bootable, you can also convert that boot floppy to a Flash Drive making it another exact copy of the boot floppy.
This is really simple stuff guys! No sense getting all hyper-technical over it.
With any Ghost boot disk, floppy, CD or Flash Drive you can easily make a Ghost backup to any drive that your motherboard can see. Then just use the same Ghost boot disk to reboot the system, select the Ghost backup image file and restore it.
Some folks have gotten all wrapped up in loading special drivers for accessing certain drives. I don't. I never had the need to.
The last two motherboards I've used for my main system, present every drive on the system to Ghost. That's an old Asrock mobo and now a MSI mobo. If it's on the system and running, Ghost will see it.
I've even made Ghost "Partition To Image" backups of my C: drive, to my six-gig flash drive. (using HIGH Compression, of course)
Y'all have a great day now, Y'hear?
The Shadow