My old pc's OS is win98. right now i'm building a new system. my old pc's HD is 6GB. the new PC i'm building is P4 3.0GB with 1GB DDR RAM and 120GB HD (Maxtor). I partitioned the 120gb HD to 110gb ntfs and 10gb fat32. I'm thinking to load to win xp on the 110 gb and to ghost my old 6gb HD to the 10 gb partitioned. after i load the win xp on the 110 gb when i ghost the 6gb to the 10gb it delete (format everything - even the win xp) and ghost the 6gb to the whole 120 GB. Don't tell me to back up my files and transfer it to the new one!! I want to do it through ghosting. Any help is greatly appreciated. Bob

I have read your post twice and I am still not sure what end result you are looking for. Do you want to end up with Win98 on the 120GB partition? If so, what will be on the 10GB? What version of ghost do you have?

Sounds like you're misusing Ghost by targeting the whole 120gb drive instead of the 6gb partition.

I agree with kinel.

The end result that I'm looking for is - partition the 120GB in to 110GB and 10GB. On the 110GB I want to load Win xp and on the 10GB I want to Ghost the hard drive of my old PC (6GB). Because I want to keep the info I've on my old HD on the new one. That is why I want to Ghost it on the 10GB partitioned HD. I hope you got me now. But it didn't work for me. That's why I needed y'al help. By the way let me ask something - can two different OS work in one HD, though partitioned? Bob

To kinel I didn't partitioned the 6GB. The 6GB is my old HD. I partitioned the 120 GB in to 110GB and 10GB sothat I can load Win xp on the 110GB and Ghost the 6GB of my old HD to the 10GB partitioned. Got me? Bob

I understood from your initial post exactly what you're trying to do and how. Did you Ghost your 6gb as a Drive ? If so and are now trying to Ghost it back as an Image to a Partition this may be the problem because, and I'm working from memory now because I haven't used Ghost for quite a while, I don't think you can do this. Because the Image is of a Drive it takes over the whole new drive. Maybe some current user of Ghost will correct me on this. What you need to do is Image the 6gb as a Partition then Image back as Partition to Partition. To your other question: Yes you can do this and it's called Dual Booting but if you want 98 to run the Partition on which you put it on MUST be a Primary not an extended or a logical drive. Doing it the way you are you will need a Boot Manager to have the option between OS's at startup. Someone is bound to jump in and say you can edit boot.ini to do this which is perfectly true but I find a boot manager is a much easier to understand method for the less experienced and there are plenty of free ones available. Search this forum for Dual Boot (or Duel Boot as some, perhaps more correctly, call it !) As you are starting from scratch with XP another way would be to get 98 working first on the 10gb then install XP. XP will recognise that you have 98 and automatically modify it's boot.ini file to give you the choice at startup.