norton ghost disk partition

[mollymoo]

If I have only one hard drive, it is possible to do a ghost image on that hard drive? If I partitioned of a section of the hard drive could I put a ghost image on that hard drive and reload up the other part.

[j2buttonsw]

No, the source and destination hard drives must be different. Yes, you can create a second partition and put a ghost image of the first partition (not the whole drive) onto the second partition. The second partition should be FAT32 in order for the Ghost boot diskette (which is DOS) to "see" the image if you want to restore it.

[garygadget]

Yes, you can do this on a single hard disk, assuming that it's currently less than half full (or you can tidy it down). But it's risky, it's much better to do it with two physical disks. If anything goes long during the resize (eg power failure) you'll probably end up having to reload your machine.

 If you do it, at minimum I'd backup your documents, and your email.

You need to repartition with Partition Magic or similar, create a new partition, format and then use Ghost to backup.

[mollymoo]

This is for a brand new machine that will have no documents and stuff on it....