Norton Ghost 15 Backup

I am new to Ghost and I have a question.

I am running XP Pro on a Dell Latitude 630 with 2GB of RAM

I have a 250 GB hard drive with 2 partitions.

c: Drive is 248 GB (and it bootable and has the OS)-Formatted NTFS

d: drive is 2 GB-Formatted FAT 16

 

I used the recovery disk and chose "Backup my Computer", then created an image with both partitions on there.

 

My question is:

 

If I got a new hard drive and simply restored the image to the new unformatted drive, would it automatically make the drive with the two partitions (formatted each like they  were) AND WILL THE NEW DRIVE BE BOOTABLE?

 

 

dgiles,

 

Nice computer. Could I pin you down on a few numbers? What are the partition sizes? They can't be 248 and 2.

 

Was the FAT partition created by Dell?

 

How many files are in your backup folder? What are their sizes and file extensions? Where is the backup folder?

 

Did you Verify the backup?

 

I just want to make sure everything is OK before I can answer your question about restoring to a new HD.

In Disk Management it says that:

 

C: Drive 232.84 GB NTFS

Unnamed Partition 39 MB FAT

 

Yes. The FAT Partition was created by Dell

 

It looks like there are 2 .v2i files, one for each partition

 

Yes, I did verify. No error messages.

dgiles,

 

Thanks for the info. The 39 MB FAT partition is a Diagnostic partition. Not essential but nice to have. I keep mine.

 

Say your HD failed. You would replace it with an empty (no partitions needed), same size or larger HD, boot from the Ghost CD and restore the images. The Diagnostic image should be restored first. Then restore the WinXP image and you can choose to resize the intended target partition larger if you had a larger HD. The new HD should boot just like the old.

 

If you didn't restore the Diagnostic partition first and just restored the WinXP image, WinXP would fail to boot because its boot.ini references partition(2) and it is now the first primary partition in the partition table. On the old HD, WinXP was the second primary partition in the partition table. Boot.ini can be edited from the Ghost 15 CD and WinXP will then boot.