Jim Jones,

Thanks for the Win98 start up disk recommendation. It worked and bailed me out of a gery sticky situation.

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I found this thread searching for a solution to this problem. On an XP system with all SATA drives and one USB be external drive, I tried to use Ghost 2003 to backup a the USB drive to a GHO file set. When the system booted into ghost it hung up on an IoMega driver.

Rebooting brought back to PC dos only to hang up again. The Ghreboot utility hung as well.

Final solution was to boot a Win98 startup floppy disk and use Fdisk to set the NTFS partition containing windows to active (thus deactvating the the Ghost partition). Then XP starting booting again as it was supposed to.

While this solution seems so nice and elegant, it took me a full day to arrive at it, so I help this suggestion can save some one else save some time.

As handy as Ghost 2003 is, it looks like it is showing it's age. To bad it is effectively discontinued.

Thanx for the prior posting help, It did lead me in the right direction.

Jim Jones