- it loads a seperate partition on the hard drive that is basically, the image (or something similar) of the floppy disk you can create in the Ghost Boot Wizard tool. - This process (automated by params in the autoexec) will restore the primary partition which could be periodically updated i.e. new hotfixes, updated apps,etc. all installed, I know I've sorta explained it twice hehe but its only to help you all understand what the hell i'm going on about....hopefully This would cut down on the need for have cd's and floppies lying about, plus where u have many of the same system's i.e. computer suites, etc. u only really need one machine (after setting this up on each pc) to have one cd-rom drive and a floppy drive i.e. cutting hardware replacement costs Best Regards (and hope someone can suggest a way of doing the above), Nath. Ok I know this answer is little late but I thought I would share the info anyway. I work at a school and if we had the ability for kids to reboot and press a key for reimage etc then they would be doing it all the time to get out of lessens. What I do here and have spent some time on is the following: I install XP that has been played with by Nlite etc to get a custom copy with all our logos in it etc. I create 2 partions and install xp to the first as in a regular install. When windows is up I partion the second partion as Fat32 and name it Restore as my restore partition. Once the XP install is complete and working the way I want it I run Sysyprep on it and shut it down. I then use a local ghost disk that images the xp partion to the restore partion. On the restore partion I also copy the ghost.exe and a batch file to restore the image from the restore to the main partion. (Using active Directory means the kids have no access to drive C or D when they are working and thus they cannot see any of the info contained there) Once I have the image on the D drive I then image the whole machine to the network for further distribution to new machines as they arrive etc. In order to reimage a machine now all i have to use is a bootable floppy or Cd that boots the machine and runs the batch file on the restore partition. I can then take the disk out and walk away knowing the machine will come up finish sysprep and join the network ready for use. It means when a machine goes down it takes on average 5 mins to bring it back up completely clean. The other benefit of doing things this way is that with admin rights and shares on the network I can access any of the D drives on any machine in the school. If I need to update and image I build the new on in the office and then i copy the restore part out accross the network to the restore on all the machines over night and then just have to insert a boot disk to get every machine to re image in 5 mins with the new working image. Does that make sense? I know what i am trying to say and if anyone needs more info please feel free to get in touch. Bio