Ghost 14.0 DVD Creation question/Problem

Back a long time ago, I use to be able to boot up on a floppy with a copy of ghost and create an image of the HDD and burn it onto a CD along with the floppy making the CD a recovery CD with the image of the HDD on it.  That way I could just boot up the CD and have it restore the image onto the HDD.  I am trying to do that now and have spent that last 6 hours and 7 wasted DVD's trying to acomplish this feat.

 

A, can this even be done anymore (If not, why was that ability taken away)

B. If it can be done, what am I doing wrong?

 

I have done the create recovery disk option, but that just makes a bootable CD that (I think) allows me to restore from an image on the HDD.  But what if I no long have that because of a crash or bad HDD or something?  That is why I want a base install on a DVD.  I won't have to spend hours installing Windows XP and then spend the time updating.  Let alone haveing to format a new HDD and you have a 500 gig drive.  (I know, PMQ does that faster and I use it for that) But still.  If I just restore the original image, it does all that for me.

 

This is so **bleep** frustrating.  I can't go back to that old copy of Ghost because I have SATA drives and it doesn't see those drives.  I hope I do not have to install a IDE HDD just so I can do this again.