Spanning, in Ghost and other backup programs, usually means that you've filled one medium and need to move on to the next. Although they appear to be offering you only a new file name, in fact what you need is a whole new path - replace the medium you're imaging _to_, and start a new file on it. If this guess is correct, what happened is that you over-wrote the first part of the ghost image with the second part of the image, and now that second part, installed on the target drive, is not bootable, which would make sense. Older versions of Ghost did not set the "boot" flag for a bootable partition, you still needed to use fdisk or the Norton equivalent to set the partition properly; this may still be an issue. You can run fdisk or some other partition utility to see the partition table. While you're at it, make certain that the partition sizes appear to be correct. After that, you can boot to some other source (knoppix CD comes to mind) and check the contents of the imaged partion. Be sure they're readable, see if they're all there or if maybe you did just get the second half of the disk. One last thing is to check that the BIOS is pointing to the right drive - some allow you to change the active boot device, in which case both devices would have to have a partition flagged as bootable. Good luck. (P.S.: If the drives are identical, using dd from knoppix might be easier than Ghost.)