Can I use Ghost to repartition my drive?

> There is a fine point to using GHOST. If you backup the whole disk, as a
> disk, then the size of the disk is included and the image will re-expand

> fill the space. That is the expanded image will contain blank space, a

> of it. But, if you backup the C:\ partition as a partition (not as a
> disk), the only requirement is that the new partition be as large as the
> files in the expanded image. Ever since making this mistake once, I have
> always backed up by partition instead whole disk, even if the disk has

> one partition.
>
> Avoid the -IA and/or -IB option of GHOST as they force the whole disk to

> to the image.
>
> However, there is one (small) potential drawback to partition images. You
> lose the information in the boot record. Normally this is of no concern.
> However, some clever schemes for copy protection store information on the
> boot record, and if the info goes, so does you ability to use the program.
> Fortunately, XP is NOT one of those. In fact the only one of which I am
> aware is Turbo Tax for tax year 2002 (not 2003).
> "Philip Herlihy" <foof8501@herlihy.eu.veil.com> wrote in message
> news:uZ5AFPxUEHA.3596@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

> > Not having fully grasped the nicer points of backups versus disk-imaging
> > when I set up my laptop, I kept all 60Gb in a single partition.
> >
> > Now I want to keep OS and Apps in one place (for imaging) and data in
> > another (for normal incremental backups) and I want to subdivide my

> >
> > If I image the partition (currently 19Gb), can I safely format,

> repartition

> > and then restore the 19Gb to (say) a 30Gb partition? Or does the Ghost
> > image contain partition information that would give me grief?
> >
> >
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