You were probably using a DOS/non-windows version of the program and it would be totally different It (Ghost) is supposed to create a small partition to reboot into and do its thing, namely, clone the drive - It F#S UP and ends up in a reboot loop. You start the program, you tell it to clone drive C: It is supposed to reboot to DOS and do its thing. You install it into the OS (in this case WinXP Pro). Wish I could offer encouragement on Ghost 2003 for you. I dug it out of storage, installed it and cloned my 100GB OS disk (C & D partitions) while dynamically resizing the individual partitions in 20 mins - FLAWLESS!!!! Easiest OS disk upgrades that I've ever done. After toying with Ghost for a couple of hours and contemplating other solutions, I remembered a piece of software from Acorn that I had used to upgrade to a new HDD in my laptop. I just refreshed my memory of late on the workings (or non-workings) of Ghost because I just bought a larger/faster HDD for my OS. This got me out of the endless loop and allowed me to return to a normal state, however, it did nothing to help me clone my drive. "-VPSGHBOOT-", that Ghost had made active, then, make the original WinXP partition active. Then, use FDisk to delete the ~800MB partition,
After researching this debacle on Google, the solution was to use a Floppy Boot Disk and boot into DOS. The computer was stuck in an endless loop of trying to either boot into Ghost or WinXP, neither of which was successful.
Ghost rebooted to DOS and created a virtual partition on the drive from which to boot Ghost, but failed in the operation after creating the partition "-VPSGHBOOT-" and making it active. NOTE: On this date, tried to do a Norton Ghost 2003 clone of drive C: from within WinXP, before installing Vista Business. The one time I tried to clone my OS with it, here was the result (from my permanent notes):
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