Are you talking about copying the hard drive to removable media (CD, DVD) so you can take the CD/DVD and install the original hard drive onto a different hard drive?
If you can, install the second hard drive in the computer as the original. Ghost can copy it over to the second one in about an hour or less.
i had a simular prob with ghost 10. tried to use the hdd to hdd copy method, it tells me cannot be used while windows is running, to retart into recovery mode and try from there. when you start in recovery mode, there is no hdd to hdd copy mode.