Norton ghost 9 - Restoring an image

[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!

 

[Jon_Hildrum]

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.

 

[milleron]

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.

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

 

[Jon_Hildrum]

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.