Re: Copying Bootable CD Disk to DVD Disk

It appears you're trying to create a Ghost boot DVD, and save a smallish
image file on it as well.
The more common method is to burn spanned image files to DVD/RW in ISO
format and use the standard Ghost boot CD for restoration. Each image file
must be less than 2GB total. Two such maximum sized files can be burned on
each DVD.
See more inserted below...
"Howard" <Howard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I am trying to copy a bootable CD installation disk (Symantec/Norton Ghost
> 9.0) to a blank DVD/RW disk in such a way that the DVD/RW disk will (1)
have
> same bootable characteristics as the CD installation disk (same DOS
programs,
> etc) and will (2) allow the user to add additional data to the DVD/RW disk
> (multisession capable)
>

There is no commonly used burning software that can do that in one step.

> I don't have any trouble copying CD to CD or DVD to DVD using Nero, Roxio
> Creator, Sonic or Drag N Drop, etc. using their disk to disk copying
> applications - however, none of these applications as far as I can tell
> allows you make an exact copy of a CD to a DVD
>

There's no big demand for that at the moment.

> Although I can copy each file from the CD to the DVD - I am losing the so
> called boot portion of the CD and as a result, the DVD fails to boot up
into
> its DOS environment - the DVD copy will allow you to install the program
and
> everything else - only the self booting capability into DOS is missing
from
> the DVD copy
>

Last I looked, the current Ghost and former DI 7.0 use Windows PE, not a
msdos envrionment.

> Apparently, a bootable CD or DVD disk has two drives/partitions/sectors ??

No such divisions on CD/DVD.
The boot portion serves as drive A:, the remainder, usually in a separate
session, has a different drive letter.

> Does Windows and these other Windows based writing programs only see or
show
> the non bootable drive of the disk??
>

The cd filesystem cannot read a boot portion of a CD/DVD.

> How do I copy the missing boot files on the CD disk so that I can get the
> DVD disk to boot and perform the same as the CD disk??
>

Its more than just writing files.

> Thank you in advance for your help!!


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