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Loy Pressley <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:41:49 -0500
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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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