Norton Save & Rescue to partition on C:/ drive

[Merryterry]

I had a new replacement HDD fitted to my Packard Bell by PCWorld some
months ago after a total failure. They reloaded XP but could not give
me a backup disc. The machine originally had a recovery facility
rather than supply the Windows XP Disc. To re load this facility will
cost about £200 squids according to Packard Bell which is bloody
robbery as it was their HDD that failed after about 18 months.

P C World did partition the HDD they fitted. I can see it using the
windows management system but It has not been 'allocated'

1) Can I use Norton Save & Rescue to put a mirror image of the
existing C:/ drive onto the partition?

2) How do I allocate a drive letter to the unallocated partition?

3) Will it work in restoring everything including the O/S by asking
the BIOS to load from the new parition?

 

[JS]

For the unallocated space:
1) Create a partition
2) Format (Use NTFS if the unallocated space is greater than 32GB)
3) Assign a drive letter.
4) If 'Save and Restore' can create and 'Image' file (as opposed to just a
file by file backup) do so.

Keep in mind that the image file you create on the new partition is on the
same physical drive as Windows so if you have a catastrophic failure of the
drive then the image backup will be lost also. It's best to store backups to
another (second) drive (external if possible).

The answer to you last question: Image files are not bootable, they are used
to restore the contents back to the partition (Windows partition in your
case) it was created from or to a replacement drive. Since I have not used
'Save and Restore' ( I use Ghost) you will need to contact Symantec Tech.
Support for the answer to your question.

JS

I had a new replacement HDD fitted to my Packard Bell by PCWorld some
months ago after a total failure. They reloaded XP but could not give
me a backup disc. The machine originally had a recovery facility
rather than supply the Windows XP Disc. To re load this facility will
cost about £200 squids according to Packard Bell which is bloody
robbery as it was their HDD that failed after about 18 months.

P C World did partition the HDD they fitted. I can see it using the
windows management system but It has not been 'allocated'

1) Can I use Norton Save & Rescue to put a mirror image of the
existing C:/ drive onto the partition?

2) How do I allocate a drive letter to the unallocated partition?

3) Will it work in restoring everything including the O/S by asking
the BIOS to load from the new parition?