Norton ghost 9 - Restoring an image

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atzakas

Hi everyone,

I have 2 HD in my PC> Both of them have 2 partitions, so 4 partitions
in total.
Let's say that HD1 has partitions C and D, while HD2 has partitions E
and F.
For the moment, drives C and E contain winXP (dual boot), while drives
D and F contain data. All of them are formated as NTFS.

When I first installed winXP on drive E I made an image of it. Now I
want to restore this image on drive C !!

Is it possible to just select "restore an image", select the image of
drive E (with winXP) and apply it to drive C? What will happen with the
dual boot ? Will the drive still be named C? Is this risky?

Of course, I can always format drive C and install winXP from the
beginning, then create an image for drive C (leaving me with 2 images,
one for drive E and one for drive C).

Any suggestion?

Thank you!
 
Restoring the image from drive E to Drive C will not work. It appears from
your statement that drive C contains all the boot files including the
bootmanager. It is not on drive drive E. As such if you restored the drive E
image to C it would not work.
 
Restoring the image from drive E to Drive C will not work. It appears from
your statement that drive C contains all the boot files including the
bootmanager. It is not on drive drive E. As such if you restored the drive E
image to C it would not work.
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Could OP temporarily remove HD 1 and then, booting from the XP CD,
choose to repair the only installation of XP that XP Setup sees?


Ron
 
it would probably work. It would be the same as installing the image on C
then just insert the CD and do a repair of the C installation.

I'm not sure what he is trying to do with having two XP installation (with
images) but if it is for potential harddrive failures, he may be better off
having a small boot partition and the XP installation in other partition.
Then save an image of the C partition also to the other hardrive.

Example:
(note drive letters may turn out differenent)
Physical drive 1 - 3 partition (or more)
C and E, F

Use C as boot partiton (it would contain the bootmanager and necessary boot
files)
Install XP Copy 1 on E partition.

Physical Drive 2
D: and F: partition
Install Copy to of XP on D. Then store image of C and XP copy 1 (e) on F:

Store an image of XP Copy 2 on F partition.

Ends up with a lot of space being used. My view is that if he wants a
reasonable amount safety for a harddrive failure, I would just install 1
copy of XP and make and image on the other harddrive.
 
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