I have used Ghost every day for 5 years and using Ghost 8, I found the same
thing that you did unless I restored a Vista image back to the same exact
hard drive / partition. This is a new twist with Vista that was not true
with XP. Event restoring to an identical partition size on a differnent
disk requires the repair procedure

Putting in the CD like it tells you fixes the start routine without changing
anything else. It only takes about a minute for it to do the repair.

XP had tools for deploying workstations with Ghost - Sysprep and RIS etc.
They must have a new trick for Vista, because the repair process on each
target pc would hardly be considered a production procedure.

XP was more sensitive to imaging than 2000. Now Vista is more sensitive
than XP.


"Gordon J. Rattray" <gords@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:eHKr7o%23RHHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi there,
>
> I've got Vista Ultimate on a 40 Gb hard drive which turns out to be too
> small. So, I am trying to Ghost it to an 80 Gb HDD and it goes thru the
> ghosting process.
>
> But, when I put it in to boot up off the newly Ghosted 80 Gb HDD, it comes
> up with an error "winloader.exe not found....please insert repair
> disk....."
>
> Is this an incompatible Ghost version... Ghost 2003....?
>
> Gordon