With the latest versions of Ghost, it doesn't necessarily need to be FAT.
Ghost can now read/write NTFS, some USB devices, CDRW, etc.
I have heard rumors that some versions of Ghost can even back up your system
drive without rebooting to DOS - I'm not sure if I believe this, but it may be
true.
Ghost can be put on a bootable CD as well as floppies, and some USB devices
like hard drives can be made bootable, and hold the Ghost program as well as
the images.
|The partition holding the backup must be FAT so you can
|read it when restoring.
|
|Base partition can still be NTFS.
|
|I do exactly that, although I clone the backup to a
|network drive. Has some issue's if I need to restore,
|but it works.
|
|I'll agree with the second HD also, look for something
|cheap. Probably 50 bucks will get you a reasonably sized
|drive. and eliminates the issue if the primary crashes.
|
|
|>-----Original Message-----
|>As Harry said you can image your XP partition to another
|partition but like
|>you mentioned it's useless if the drive fails. I would
|recommend a 2nd hard
|>drive. Disks are really cheap, many under $.50 a gb on
|sale, and then you
|>could image all your partitions and be protected in case
|of a disk failure.
|>
|>|>I've almost finished installing XP on a new computer
|with 4 logical drives.
|>Can I create a Ghost image capable of restoring my
|system on one of the
|>logical drives (not the system drive)? I know this is
|useless if the hard
|>drive fails, but I'm thinking more about XP failures.
|>
|>
|>
|>.
|>
