ghost.exe won't burn onto a bootable cd

Here is an excellent walkthrough for you. I just did it yestday. Worked great. http://users.pandora.be/satcp/ghostresq01.htm

*note. I it will have you make a ghost.bat file, you will want it to look like this

GHOST.EXE -clone,MODE=pload,SRC=%CDROM%\Dell505.GHO:1,DST=1:1 -f32

The key thing being the " -f32", this needs to be used if your hard drive is over 2 gb.

johnbowden

Which *boot disk (2 disk set)* are you creating with the Ghost Boot Wizard?

You need the *CD/DVD Startup Disk with Ghost* if you want to be able to *see* the *ghost.exe* on the optical drive.

You want to use the 1st of the two disks as the boot floppy that Nero will read to create the bootable optical disk.

The second floppy disk just has the *ghost.exe* DOS Ghost v8.0 program probably in the sub-directory *Ghost*.

I'm not sure what the issue is with the *access denied* during burning--but, regardless, you are going to have a problem with launching Ghost from the optical media.  The reason being is that the 2 disk boot set assumes you are feeding floppy disks into the floppy drive, and you will not be doing that from a bootable optical media!

The problem is that the boot files are pointing to the floppy drive and will not know what drive letter is assigned to your optical drive.  I edit the boot files so I control the drive letter assignments.  Below are the needed boot file changes and files needed on that first boot floppy for Nero to read  (I delete everything except what's listed):

[config.sys]

DEVICE = oakcdrom.sys /D:cd1
DEVICE = btdosm.sys
DEVICE = flashpt.sys
DEVICE = btcdrom.sys /D:cd2
DEVICE = aspi2dos.sys
DEVICE = aspi8dos.sys
DEVICE = aspi4dos.sys
DEVICE = aspi8u2.sys
DEVICE = aspicd.sys /D:cd3
LASTDRIVE = Z

[autoexe.bat]

@echo off
SET TZ=GHO+08:00
MOUSE.COM
LH \MSCDEX.EXE /D:cd1 /D:cd2 /D:cd3

To the above line, I add the */l:x* switch--this tells *mscdex.exe* to give the first optical drive seen by the boot cycle the drive letter *X:\*--and that should be the optical drive you plan on booting from--so the line should now read:

LH \MSCDEX.EXE /D:cd1 /D:cd2 /D:cd3 /l:x

And I add the following lines to *autoexec.bat*:

set path=a:\;x:\
x:
ghost.exe

So, the final *autoexec.bat* looks like this:

[autoexec.bat]

@echo off
SET TZ=GHO+08:00
MOUSE.COM
LH \MSCDEX.EXE /D:cd1 /D:cd2 /D:cd3 /l:x
set path=a:\;x:\
x:
ghost.exe -ghostoncd

So, what does the above do?

--the */l:x sets the optical drive to a specific letter so you know what it is going to be, i.e. X:\
--the *path* statement tells DOS where to look for things
--*x:* changes the DOS prompt focus from the A:\ drive to the X:\ drive (the optical disc's root directory
--*ghost.exe -ghostoncd* starts Ghost from the X:\ root directory, and the *-ghostoncd* switch tells Ghost to place *ghost.exe* on any optical media that you tell Ghost to make bootable--if that's where you want to save an image to

Leave all the other files as is on the 1st boot floppy disk--use that 1st boot disk in Nero as the source of boot files.  When you get to the step where you can add files to the data portion of the disc you are about to burn, tell Nero to copy *ghost.exe* to the root directory of the optical disc.

Use a RW disc at first to make sure it all works without wasting CD's as coasters just in case there's a mistake that needs correcting.

Hope this helps.