Ghost Solution Suite

Here is my problem. We frequently create ghost images of important employees when some legal matter arises and store until needed. Then a legal case comes up and we need to send that image to our law firm. They do not like to receive image files, they prefer the image be restored to a disk for easy processing on their side. What I want to do is use my esata/USB drive dock, pop in a hard disk and run GHOST32>disk from image option and restore an image to disk. I dont even need the disk to boot, I just need the image restored so it can be processed/searched.

The problem is that ghost32 gives me the error "Destination Disk Could not be locked". I have tried several different configurations, connecting through esata, usb, with a partition, without, assigned a drive letter, and not. I can't figure out what is preventing Ghost from locking the drive..... There is definately no page file on the disk.

Any ideas and is this even a supported use of Ghost32? I would hate to have to boot to a ghost boot disk to perform these restores. 

What version of Ghost do you have? 
Some versions include tools which enable you to open a GHO file and display it  as if viewing the original hard disk in Explorer. This would seem to me to be the functionality you need.

We cant use Ghost Explorer and if you use switches lik -IR or -IA to include slack space in the drive then you cannot even open the image with Ghost explorer. They have software that scans the drive, de-syst it, de dups, and imports everything into a searchable data base. thats why the image needs to be restored to a disk.

My Ghost32 version is 11.0.1 I believe

no ideas?

My problem came down to disk numbering. I forgot that Ghost displays all disks starting with the number 1 instead of 0. I was choosing destination disk 2 to match the disk number in windows but it was actually disk 3 in Ghost. Once I selected the right disk it worked fine. Chalk that up to user error...