That's an interesting concept.  So you've created, or left in place, a FAT32 partition on the drive which is also home to XP?  And when you run Ghost, you save the image to to this FAT32 partition?

And you also copy the image to your USB drive, presumably as insurance?  Sounds like a cunning plan:--))

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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  From: Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 4:02 AM
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  Hello Ian!

  "Anyone here used Ghost 2003 in XP to backup their system?  Then restore =
  from a backup?

  Anyone used Ghost 2003 in XP to backup their system onto a USB =
  enclosure\HDD?  Symantec's website seems to indicate that this is =
  possible. =20 Ian Porter Computer Guys Inc. Arrowtown New Zealand
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  I use Ghost on my Dell XP Pro machine and have reinstalled from a Ghost
  image three times with no problems (outside of Norton AV being quite
  confused - a uninstall and reinstall fixed it). As I go through the setup
  portion of Ghost for imaging a drive, it seems to correctly identify a USB
  2.0 HD that I could use to store the image. I don't use  that simply because
  I have a FAT32 partition on the HD that works faster when I restore. I do
  make a copy of that image on the USB HD, and during the restore process,
  Ghost does see it.

  HTH!

  Best, 

  Will Stephenson



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