Since it was a clean install and you have not loaded anything on it, I would 
just reformat the C: drive and re-install Windows on it.  (I am not sure of 
the reason for making a Ghost image of a clean install.)  If you still want 
an image, you can try again.  If it doesn't work, format and make a clean 
install again.  As long as there is nothing but Windows on it, you aren't 
losing anything that a clean install won't give you.

Dean Kukral


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Loy Pressley" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 2:41 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Computer Won't Boot


I'm desperate and all of you have always been so generous with your
help, so...

Last week I got a new computer that I had built for me.  It is an AMD 64
Athlon X2 that has a 400 watt power supply and runs at 3.8 GHz.  It has
WinXP Pro SP2 with all the updates on it.  In has a 250 GB Seagate SATA
hard drive.  I was attempting to make an image using Ghost 2003 of C:
drive to CD before I started loading it down with all my program.  After
I set up the image operation, Ghost did it's thing and restarted in PC
Dos.  Then, it immediately aborted and said it was going back to
Windows.  That is as far as it got and it has been that way ever since.
I have tried rebooting and every time it goes back to Ghost, aborts and
gives the same message as above, and then doesn't go back to windows or
anything else.  I've tried everything...even the Ghost emergency disks
that I created before starting the imaging process.  Nothing will work
because it won't boot to Windows...it just hangs up in the Ghost program
each time I try to reboot.

More information that may have a bearing on this...when I got the new
computer, it had a second partition on it that could be selected on boot
up that took you immediately to Ghost where you could back up the C:
drive to disk or to that partition itself.  Using that Ghost I made a
backup of the C: drive to CD, however, the image on the CDs isn't
bootable which, it seems to me, makes the image created useless for
restoring a failed hard drive.

Anyway, my problem is that the computer will not reboot to Windows after
trying to run the Ghost image program.  I can get into the bios but
there doesn't seem to be anything in there that will help.

Thanks for any help anyone can give...

Loy

 

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