I've been given a laptop to clean-up that my dad bought from a second-hand shop. None of the oem software is with it, but whoever sold it did a clean install before hand. Ive decided to keep the fairly fresh install, but create a partition that my dad can have a norton ghost image on, for when problems arise that would warrant a clean install of XP.

How do I go about creating a partition without having to do a clean install? I think I have partition magic on my norton ghost disc, but im not sure how reliable it is etc and what the method is.

Thanks in advance for any advice

With Ghost & Magic you have many options. XP itself can only create partitions during installation. Here are some quick links for your reading:

http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/gho..._tutorial.html

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.c...1051987&page=1

http://www.google.com/search?q=partition%20magic

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...c+norton+ghost

Cheers mate.

I knew the answers were there, but I wasnt sure if I was on the right track