Norton Ghost 14- Prepurchase queries

I am thinking about purchasing Norton Ghost 14, but have two questions as follows:

 

1.  I want to be able to backup the entire drive from 3 different laptops to one external drive. Is this possible?  If so, must I install 3 partitions on the external drive?  My intent is to be able to restore the drive to each laptop as it may necessary in the event of a hard drive failure.

 

2.  I will be installing Windows 7 on each laptop when it becomes available in October.  There appears to be issues using Windows 7 and Norton Ghost14.  If I purchase Ghost 14 now will Norton be providing some sort of fix or free upgrade to a new version of Ghost so that I am not left in a lurch after purchasing the product?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Jim

 

<<Edit: Subject edited for more clarity>>

Message Edited by JerryM on 09-20-2009 09:46 AM