One other possible explanation I can think of is you are using optical media on a system different from where the image was originally burned from directly by Ghost-and the optical drive you are now using is not compatible with the *built-in* ability of Ghost to access compatible optical drives. Norton Ghost 8.3: Similar to Drive Image (with usb/scsi support). ImageCenter 5.6 (Drive Image 2002): Best software to clone hard drive. COPYR.DMA Build013: A Tool for making copies of hard disks with bad sectors. Or, if you're comfortable with DOS boot disks, you can create a custom boot disk with the drivers and Ghost. Acronis True Image 8.1.945: Create an exact disk image for complete system backup and disk cloning. If you're using the Ghost Boot Wizard, you need the *CD/DVD Startup Disk with Ghost*, which will be a two floppy boot disk set, which will have those DOS drivers included. If Ghost had been used to burn the image to optical media directly, then Ghost would recognize and mount the image directly without needing the DOS drivers mentioned above. Norton Ghost 2003 for Windows 2000 and XPNo activation requiredFull documentation included. You do not say, but I'm guessing you are using Ghost 2002 or 2003, you created the image to HDD initially, and later burned it to optical media with a third party burning program.

Symantec's Ghost, for unknown reasons and poor documentation regarding functionality, will not mount a Ghost image on optical media unless Ghost was used to actually burn the image to the media in the first place-unless you use the DOS drivers that mount the optical drive from *config.sys* (example-oakcdrom.sys), and assign drive letters from *autoexec.bat* (example-mscdex.exe). The disk image is then ready to retrieve in case of a system failure, theft, or other mishap.

The intuitive Windows interface makes it easy to create regular backup images of your hard drive either the entire disk or a selected partition. *No*-probably not either-but there probably is a simple solution. Symantec s Norton Ghost 2003 protects your data from computer disasters. Am I just being stupid and missing something really simple?

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