In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
BillW50 wrote:

In ,
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?


I'm running Norton Ghost 2003 - and, yes, it understands NTFS. You can run
some functions under Windows, but have to resort to a version running from a
bootable DOS device to make an image of a system disk [1]. If you back up to
another machine over a network, the other machine can be running Windows.

[I'm not quite sure how you would clone a *live* Windows system, 'cos you'd
be aiming at a moving target!]

[1] You create the bootable system from within the Windows version,
specifiying what support you need for USB, Firewire or network devices so
that it includes the required drivers.
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Cheers,
Roger
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