i found this for ghost 8.3{not tested by me} "Just run the following commands (one time only) from a cmd box in Vista under an admin account :" BCDEDIT /set {bootmgr} device boot BCDEDIT /set {default} device boot BCDEDIT /set {default} osdevice boot "By doing just that, one time, Vista is now set up to always work with your Ghost boot disk; You can make Ghost images just like you did with all the other operating systems. "