Re: Replacing Hard drive

First and foremost, your version of Ghost must be able to access the media
you saved the image file(s) on.

If he was able to access the media to create the image he will be able to
access that same media to restore the image.

If the laptop is in XP NTFS format (doubtful on a factory laptop), your
version of Ghost has to be able to create an XP version of NTFS (NTFS
version 3) partition for restoration. There also may a question of the
MFT and MBR restoration in some cases with older versions of Ghost
regarding XP and its version of NTFS.

My 2 year old Compaq came with XP installed on an NTFS partition. Acer is
one of the few OEM's that installs XP on FAT32 partitions from the factory.
If the OP has Ghost 2003 NTFS is not an issue.


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