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Hello everyone

I'm currently trying to geht norton ghost server 8.0 to work. Basicly, it all works fine. I tested it with normal winXPpro, and everything worked as planned.

But now, my actual system is a tripple boot (1x Dos with bootmgr, 1 x win xp pro, 1 x win2003 server (2 partition are always hidden, so the user has no access to the other operating systems). When I try to get the image from this workstation (or load an image to this station) it trys to reboot, and then I got the error message; Missing Operating System.

I checked now with partition magic the harddrive, and partition magic says; unkonw error in the partitiontable. If I try to restart with an external bootmanager, I can start my operating systems as usual.

Now, I don't know anymore what the problem could be. The last thing it could be; I dont have any unallocated space on the disc left. Does ghost need some free, unallocated space? I would be glad to here your thought about my problem.

Ghost shouldn't need any unallocated space afaik. Curious though, are you capturing with Ghost Console or just using a Ghost boot disk for the capture? Is this the result after you've placed the ghost image onto another machine? I can't imagine you getting the Missing OS message doing the capture while using a Ghost boot disk. Using the Ghost Console there are modifications made to your boot process so that you boot to a virtual disk which connects you directly to the ghost session. This process may have damaged your original boot process/loader if you are using the console.

I'm trying to capture the image with cost console. So, ghost makes "some" changes to the boot order, but I didn't found any kind of information what exactly. I belive as well that ghost won't work with my boot manager. Which brings me right now to the idea; changing the bootmanager. I'll try this out right now :-)

Ok, it seems to work. I used a no-name bootmanager before, now I installed boot us. No Problems anymore.. thx for everything

Glad you got everything working!