Versions since they adopted the DriveImage (Powerquest) programs have only
been able to restore from the CD. They have come with the older versions
packaged so you could run older restores made with them. Not sure about the
restores made with the Powerquest versions.


"Sam" <sam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>I just picked up Norton Ghost 12 to use with Vista and I'm thoroughly
>confused. Before I contact (and probably have to pay for) support I
>thought I'd see if anyone here had used it and could answer my questions.
>
> All I want to do is use the boot disk and backup the system partition, but
> it looks like they've changed the way it works.
>
> The boot disk is only giving me recovery options and no backup ones. Is
> everything done from the "client app" now?
>
> My Dell E521 has two recovery partitions (the Dell Utility and Vista
> recovery) that I'd also like to backup but they aren't showing up in the
> list of drives. Can I not select raw partitions on the disk? Am I
> limited only to drives that are mapped by the OS?
>
> In case of 100% disk failure I expected to be able to boot from the
> recovery CD and restore the two recovery partitions, the OS, (and an
> additional files/games partitions on Disk 0) on a replacement disk. How
> am I supposed to recover a failed disk?
>
> I like the old way because it operated outside the OS. I'm not sure I
> like this whole "recovery service" idea. If all I wanted was an suped up
> version of Vista's System Restore I wouldn't have bothered.
>
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