Hello there...

I feel like such a newbie STILL, but I am stuck. My brother set up Ghost at my last format and showed me how to use it, no problem. I have a saved image on D. BUT how do I get into DOS to use Ghost, and I can't remember the prompt to type once in there either? I've tried hitting all my F1, F2..... KEYS on the WAY into Windows with no luck... is there a command I'm missing? My brother disappeared... perhaps he's been rendered?

I can't believe I have forgotten how to enter DOS mode but my pc has run sweet for two years now... :-

:-) :-)

What version of Windows are you running?
I'm using XP, SP2. Is it different for different versions?

You need to boot into DOS from a floppy, a CD-ROM or a pen drive, with ghost.exe on it. Did your brother LEAVE you with any of these things?

However, a two-year-old Ghost image is not going to be much use unless you don't mind going back to how your PC was 2 years ago.

The idea behind Ghost is (I always thought) that you use it often (I do it monthly and before any big change or upgrade).

I don't use my ghost regularly, instead I keep an image of a freshly installed windows with only updates applied. Then if I need to format and reinstall, I can do in 10 min. instead of using an whole evening on it. Then I just apply new updates and update the image. It doesn't take me long to install the programs I use so I like this approach better.

If you have the ghost cd you can boot from it and the dos version of ghost will load. You can restore the image from there. (At LEAST I can do this with my version.)