How to format / 2 Drives one OS

[bojovan]

I have 2 HD's C & D. C has OS and D has Ghost and other backup information on it. I need to know how I can format drive C so I can do a clean Ghost back image.

[TangZ]

you should be able to boot from D: if made a correct ghost image!! do you have a bootscreen that comes up?
if not you can use a 3rd party utility to format JUST THE C DRIVE. and then boot from the D and it sould reinstall the ghosted image

[104456]

If you just ghost the image back to the drive with the pre made boot disk it will delete/overwrite all data anyway so a format is not necessary unless you have a virus to remove.

[TangZ]

104456; If he did it correctly (havent used n.ghost in a while) shouldnt he have a bootscreen? and shouldnt the d drive be "bootable?" If my information is outdated please let me know; like i said...I havent used it in a while!!

[104456]

There are a couple of ways of doing it but I think the best way in this situation given the image is on the D drive rather then a CDR would be to use a ghost boot disk to restart the system which can be made within windows using the correct type for your install i.e. Standard boot disk,network enabled,CDR boot CD etc .
Restarting with this floppy initiates the ghost program screen which will allow the choice of which image to restore and from where [D] then selection of where it is being restored to in this case the selection of Image to Drive.
This will overwrite all data on the drive selected with the image data and provided the backup is valid it should boot up as per the date of the backup.
You can also do an image to partition if its all on one drive.

[TangZ]

Yeah, I believe your right, that looks and sounds like it would make much more sense to do! and alot easier too!

[104456]

Heres a pic just for refference:
Update : Link deleted

[TangZ]

ok im getting an error when it shows the pic...something about imagestation (you are trying to access an image outside of the imagestation)

[104456]

oops sorry they must have stopped linking [*-deleted word-*]!

See if this one shows up ok:

[SuperSparks]

Here is an extremely good tutorial on Ghost:

Guide to Norton Ghost

If you really do want to format before reinstalling the image, boot up with the XP CD in the drive and go to the Recovery Console. At the command prompt type: "format C: /fs:ntfs" or "format C: /fs:fat32" without the quotes depending on which file system you want (NTFS is recommended).