Well I have a ghost 8 boot cd that I use to generally backup all my systems. Newer machines with more advanced chipsets and the like just wont boot from the cd. The programs runs but there isnt much use having a ghost image that you cant recover to cuz you cant write it over an os your working on.Its just newer systems ive found this problem with not older machines with sata(well my newest and a couple of others with intel chipsets)
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Ok I "acquired" a cd of symantec ghost 10 and yes it works a treat

Im gonna grumble about the boot cd though as its a Live cd and takes ages so I imagine a recovery will also take ages where the older pcdos recovery was limited only by read write speeds of the disks