I will mention that the version of Acronis I have, DOES have Bart PE included so you can actually build a good boot CD, but I think you have to do a custom install to get it installed with the app.  Acronis creates images without rebooting (by locking files at a certain point).  It also EXcludes pagefile.sys and the hibernation file.  I make image files, not cloned partitions.

AnnaSummers

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From: Loy Pressley <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 2006/10/14 Sat PM 07:57:41 EDT
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Computer Won't Boot

Hi Don,

It does work with CDs.  I've imaged this computer that I'm on many times 
to CD using Ghost 2003.  In fact, one of the Ghost 2003 images that I 
made is what I used to restore the system when I changed to a larger 
hard drive on this computer.

I already had an image of the C: drive on CD (took 4 CDs).  The problem 
was that it was not bootable.  I was trying to create a bootable CD 
image when it locked up.

I tried booting to safe mode.  It would not do it.  I don't currently 
have a BartPE disk.  I downloaded the instructions to create one using 
the WinXP home disk for this computer that I'm going to try.

Thanks...

Loy

Don Penlington wrote:
> Loy wrote:
>
>> I was attempting to make an image using Ghost 2003 of C: drive to CD>>
>
>
> For starters, there's no way an image of your C-Drive will fit onto a 
> CD. XP is way too big.
>
> It's a forlorn thought, and a bit wacky, but try putting a blank DVD 
> disk into the burner and then rebooting.  It might be just enough to 
> trigger an error message in Ghost, which is probably chasing its own 
> tail trying to achieve the impossible task you've set it. Maybe you 
> might get an error message that will give you an option to cancel or 
> abort, thus releasing Ghost.
>
> Try booting into Safe Mode (hold down F8) so that you can run System 
> Restore.  Otherwise, you'll need an emergency startup disk such as 
> BartPE and run System Restore from that, or a registry restoration if 
> you have any registry backups.
>
> Don Penlington
>
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