Ray, I run Ghost from a bootable floppy to backup from C: to D: Don't have the machine or disk here to try it from CD to HD. I wonder if that would work for you. At 1/19/03, you wrote: >I am trying to copy a cd containing a ghost image of win 98 onto a formatted > hard drive. The cd also contains boot information and is able to boot > into dos. >After entering dos I switch the A:\ drive to E:\ drive and attempt to copy >the cd >to the hard drive using xcopy. > It shows E:\> xcopy e:\ [C:\] [/S] [/H] [/K] but it doesn't work. >Unfortunately, I am short on dos, as you can see. >I would appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks, Ray