Making drive bootable for XP

[Will]

I wish to make "Ghost" or copy my current drive to another drive for backup.
I have partitioned and formatted a spare drive NTFS using Disk Management
(under computer management) but when I look at the newly partitioned and
formatted drive in Disk Management I don't see that same 31mg FAT that I
see on my current C drive. I will use Norton Ghost to make the backup. Is
there something else I have to do? The drive I am backing up to is
currently USB but will be stored until needed and then installed as the C
drive pending any future C drive failure.

Thank you

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I wish to make "Ghost" or copy my current drive to another drive
for backup. I have partitioned and formatted a spare drive NTFS
using Disk Management (under computer management) but when I look
at the newly partitioned and formatted drive in Disk Management I
don't see that same 31mg FAT that I see on my current C drive. I
will use Norton Ghost to make the backup. Is there something else
I have to do? The drive I am backing up to is currently USB but
will be stored until needed and then installed as the C drive
pending any future C drive failure.

That 31MB FAT is probably some oem diagnostic utility partition and has
nothing to do with Windows XP.

Ghost can make DISK or PARTITION copies. You should only need the Windows
XP partition - not the 31MB partition - but you could just do the entire
disk and not worry with it.

 

[Anna]

I wish to make "Ghost" or copy my current drive to another drive for
backup. I have partitioned and formatted a spare drive NTFS using Disk
Management (under computer management) but when I look at the newly
partitioned and formatted drive in Disk Management I don't see that same
31mg FAT that I see on my current C drive. I will use Norton Ghost to make
the backup. Is there something else I have to do? The drive I am backing
up to is currently USB but will be stored until needed and then installed
as the C drive pending any future C drive failure.

Thank you

Will:
From the description of your objective what you probably should be doing is
using your Ghost program to clone the contents of your internal HDD to your
USB external HDD, i.e., a disk-to-disk clone. Incidentally, there is no need
to partition/format the destination drive (the recipient of the clone)
should you undertake this process, but there's no harm in doing so. It's
simply unnecessary.
Anna