DVD question - will a DVD boot ? can a ghost PCDOS boot floppy read DVDs ?

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I have several DOS floppies that I use to boot up ghost (V6.51) or Win98 etc. It loads the CD DOS drivers and CDs work fine. Now
that I have a HP635i DVD writer, I would like to save a few 2gb image files to DVD. (disk images)
If I do so, and should need them, how to read them from DOS/ Norton Ghost ?
As far as reading ... can it use the generic CD driver that loads by default from a ghost floppy ?
Or if I were to burn an image to a DVD from Nero, would it boot ?
Or must I load a DOS driver for a DVD player ? If so, where to get one ?

Thanks, Bobb
 
Does not ghost create a bootable image dvd?

- Bobb - said:
I have several DOS floppies that I use to boot up ghost (V6.51) or Win98
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etc. It loads the CD DOS drivers and CDs work fine. Now
 
- Bobb - said:
I have several DOS floppies that I use to boot up ghost (V6.51) or Win98
Click to expand...
etc. It loads the CD DOS drivers and CDs work fine. Now
that I have a HP635i DVD writer, I would like to save a few 2gb image files to DVD. (disk images)
If I do so, and should need them, how to read them from DOS/ Norton Ghost ?
As far as reading ... can it use the generic CD driver that loads by default from a ghost floppy ?
Or if I were to burn an image to a DVD from Nero, would it boot ?
Or must I load a DOS driver for a DVD player ? If so, where to get one ?
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Hi,

Normally you can create boot disks with Ghost - such a boot disk will allow
you to read the DVD and restore the image from DVD to harddisk.

Even if you do not have such a boot disk, it would not be such a problem.
Here's the following you could do in case of emergency:
- reinstall Windows 2000/XP/whatever (basic, no service packs, updates or
software)
- install Ghost
- restore the boot disk using Ghost

A bit more work - but as you can see, it's possible with or without boot
disk(s).

Best regards,

Princess Morgiah
 
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