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don · Guest

I used Norton Ghost 8 for DOS to backup my 40 gig laptop hard drive which is
partitioned into (2) 15 gig and (1) 10 gig drives - The 15 gig drives both
have WinXP pro on them for a dual boot setup and the 10 gig is for my shared
files - all partitions are visible for either WinXP boot - So it looks like
Ghost made an image of the entire drive and stored it onto my external
Maxtor 250 gig harddrive -

My question is: If after a catastrophic problem say I wanted to restore
my entire laptop harddrive - Would I first have to partition it back into
the 3 identical original partitions, or would this huge 10 gig Ghost
backup file automatically restore the harddrive back to the way it was with
the original 3 partitions - Also was this this best way to do this or
should I have made separate images of each of the 3 partitions because
originally thats what I thought Ghost was going to do - but the Ghost menu
screen was unclear to me as to what did what.

Thanks for any suggestions and help

meerkat · Guest

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