Using XP Pro. with Norton Ghost

[Guest]

Dual booting Win. XP Pro (NTFS) on one hard drive with one Fat 32 Partition
and Win. ME (Fat 32) on a second hard drive with one NTFS partition. Planned
to back up each OS to the other hard drive.

Bought a new copy of Norton Ghost 9.0. Installation book says “Norton Ghost
9.0 Does not run under Win. ME But Ghost 2003 Is included for people who have
older systems.†I took this to mean that I would need to use Ghost 2003 to
back up ME.

Ok. I installed Ghost 9.0 With XP Pro. And backed it up to the other hard
drive, quick and easy. Then installed Ghost 2003 With Win. ME. Discovered I
can’t back up ME to the XP hard drive because Ghost & ME Can’t see any of
the partitions on that drive.

But Ghost 9.0 Sees everything, so out of curiosity I asked Ghost 9.0 to back
up ME. Apprently it did and now I am wondering if this will really restore
ME? Did I misinterpret the instructions? Do I even need Ghost 2003 On my
computer?

I posted this question to Symantec Tec Support and received an immediate
confirmation with promise of a reply within 48 Hours. Never received the
reply. Will appreciate any advice I can get about this.

 

[Richard Urban]

You can image the Windows ME partition with Ghost 9, from within the Windows
XP operating system. You don't need to also install Ghost 2003. That is for
the people who are running earlier versions of Windows - exclusively.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply Richard, never used ghost before and just was not sure
how I should do that. will remove the 2003 version from ME and just go with
9.0. It seems pretty easy to use.

Thanks again.