I have Norton Ghost 9.0 that came with Norton System Works premiere. I was able to make a backup of my C: drive just fine, but to my surprise, the discs aren't bootable, unlike Ghost 2003. According to the help file, you need a "norton ghost" disk or Symantec disaster recovery disk to boot from if you can't get to the hard drive, which is what I need. There are no options under Ghost 9.0 to create a boot disk. How the hell do I do this? I tried using a Ghost 2003 boot disk, but it didn't work because 2003 and 9.0 save files differently and it wouldn't recognize my backup.

I figure it means a normal xp bootable floppy.

I see. Symantec's help literature seems to elude to a separate Norton Ghost disk that comes with Norton System Works Premiere, but all I have is the one Premiere disk. They keep using the terms "Norton boot CD" or Symantec recovery disk, neither of which I could find any information on, aside from the fact that it's supposed to come with the Norton products. Anyway, I'm going to use Acronis True Image 8 to do my backups. I figured out how to make the boot disk and the first backup seems to be going smoothly. It took a little bit of troubleshooting though. Roxio's drag-to-disc function has to be turned off to create a boot disk, but turned on to burn any backups.

Believe it or not, I did come across a boot image for Ghost 9 - but that was a while back, and I honestly can't remember where I found it.

I think you should contact Symantec Support, I mean after all you did pay for it, so you should get what you payed for.

(I'm assuming you payed for it.)