Norton Ghost 2003 and Windows XP pro

[salaku]

Hello ghost Gurus,
If I make a ghost image of my windows XP pro partition and restore it on the same system and same partition does it trigger the activation thing? My harddisk has 4 partitions with data on 3 partitions and OS on 1 partition. Does restoring from ghost image mess up my current partition table? I am not planning to image my whole disk so it will be just 1 partition image. I do a lot of customizations and tweaking to my OS and I don't want to redo the whole setup again when things go wrong. If I have a ghost image I would simply bring back my system to life in a matter of minutes. I am very new to this ghost thing. I have Symantec notron ghost 2003. Any help is very appreciated. Thanks.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Ghost will take a "snapshot" of the partition, and is an exact duplicate of the partition. When the image is restored, the existing partition will be overwritten with the image. Therefore, the system will go back to exactly the way it was running when the Ghost image was created.

I do the same thing with my C:\ drive partition. I only install the OS and programs on the C:\ drive, and try to keep the size to a minimum (my games and data files go on separate partitions). If the system screws up, or it's time to format, I just simply restore the Ghost partition. I'm back to the feeling of a freshly installed OS with my main programs in about 10 minutes.

As long as the system was properly activated before making the Ghost image, then activation won't be required after restoring.