I love Norton Ghost 2003. I use it to clone hard drives and to save fresh and incremental installs on CD-R and DVD-R. The only problem I ever had with it occurs on my FIC VA-503+, an MVP3 board with a K6-2 350.

Everything works fine when saving and recovering from an image saved to a CD-R.

I can also backup to a DVD-R. However, when I try to boot from the DVD-R to recover, the system just hangs or gives me errors.

I don't have a problem recovering from DVD-R when I use a BX board or a KT133A board.

I'd like to use a DVD-R because I can then backup more than 1GB of data (Ghost compresses ~1GB of data to a CD-R).

Does anyone know if this is some kind of limitation of the MVP3 chipset or Award BIOS? I even use the same DVD-R drive (an LG) on all three systems, including the two others that work fine. I've tried different brands of DVD-R (including a DVD-RW), and I've both enabled/disabled UDMA on the DVD-R drive, which is the Secondary Master.

All help appreciated!