Norton Ghost or Drive Image ok for use with a Restore Partition?

[Si]

I've a HP Pavilion 733.uk.

It's 80 Gig Hard Drive has the now familiar 4GB+ Recovery partition.

I've just completed a restore and put all my applications back on one by
one, set up the PC as I like it and it's working well, so I'd like to use a
utility like Norton Ghost or Powerquest Drive Image to create a backup of
the c:\ Drive - effectively the user partition, allowing me to restore next
time without the rigmarole of inserting CD after CD and re-installing
drivers, re-setting settings etc.

Is this safe to do? In light of the fact that HP do not supply restore CDs,
I'd be afraid of overwriting my Recovery Partition with a restore operation
by one of these utilities....

Am I worrying without reason to do so?

Thanks,

Simon.

 

[Harry Avant]

I have a computer with a C and D partition. I have restored the C
partition a couple of times using Ghost and it had no effect on the D
drive, so I don't think you have much to worry about.

Harry