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Roger Mills typed on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:34:30 -0000:
[You'll need to create a bootable system on a floppy (or other
bootable media recognised by the laptop's BIOS) containing PC-DOS,
Ghost.exe and support for a network connection].

What version of Ghost are you running that runs under DOS? As all later
versions runs under Windows or Windows PE (aka BartPE or WinPE) and are
known as Ghost32. Does Ghost for DOS understand NTFS formats?

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Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Windows XP SP3