Create a Bootable CD

you can find out at this site

http://www.startdisk.com/Web2/ubd/ubd.htm

heres a small bit I got from thier site.

We must get three or four e-mails a week extolling the virtues of bootable CDs. But we don't recommend them. If you are having problems with Windows, you should try to fix them by restoring the registry or trying some of the other tools on the Ultimate Boot Disk.

Invariably, the files you back up on a CDs are out of date almost the instant you burn them. Nor can you saveor change configuration files to anything but a formatted hard drive. True, you can install Windows from a bootable CD if you copy the setup files to the CD before you burn it. But for all that trouble, you might as well pop in the Windows installation CD and floppy boot disk you already have.

Even placing a disk image of your operating system on a bootable CD is problematic: With hard drives now exceeding 40GB or more in size, you can kiss your stockpile of MP3s, e-mail messages, letters, spreadsheets and zip files goodbye. Because if you didn't take the time to organize your hard disk into one or more logical drives, you will have a tough time cramming an image file of your primary C: drive into one or even several 640MB CDs.

Your CDRW Software should do this for you. On Adaptec EZ CD Creator, you click on the little drop arrow next to "New" and select "Bootable CD". The catch here is that it requires a bootable floppy in the A: Drive to copy the boot code from. I noticed you said you didn't have a floppy, so this may not work for you. Maybe you have different software that will let you. Check it's help text.

Another method may be to make a "CD Copy" of an existing bootable CD like WIN98, ME, or whatever. Then, once booted, exit the setup, change the CD to one with your ghost image and go from there. Actually, now that I think about it, Ghost has an option to make the CD bootable when you create the image. Check into it's help text. I've never tried it.

My apologies, I thought I was helping.
I felt the additional info was important, so I copied it from the site.

Spyperdog:

You don't owe this person an apology. You extended yourself to provide information that may or may not be userful. If Teraine does not have the manners, or good breeding, to accept your assistance with good grace, then that is their problem, not yours. A simply note thanking you, without awarding points, would have been sufficient, but some people think it is necessary to insult the efforts of others.

The whole spirit of this section is to offer assistance, and those who have been doing this for a while know that sometimes the best answer is not the direct answer that someone is looking for.

So keep contributing -- and don't let one user's boorish behavior turn you off to helping others.

And no, Teraine, I don't wantany of your points.