I want to copy my entire C drive to a new drive using Ghost. Do I have to make the new Drive G the Booting drive or can I leave it at C. I know there is an option for making the new drive the primary but I don't want to do it if I am forced to make the new drive the boot drive. Am I clear? If you have any ideas on this let me know.Windows is only capable of booting from C:, I don't know what will happen if you ghost C: to G: and then reformat C:, I THINK you will destroy the MBR and you will no longer be able to enter Windows.

You can, however, create a dual boot by ghosting to G:, editing the boot.ini and still use C:.. No you're not clear...what do you want to accomplish here ? ?I guess my ultimate GOAL is to have two bootable disk, one with XP and on with VISTA or linux. I do not want to reformat my C just copy it but still keep it as the main boot drive. A Ghost image is an exact replica of your C: drive. If you use it to clone another physical HDD then you will be able to boot it by setting the drive order in the BIOS.
This will NOT work on another partition on the same HDD as you can only have one active partition on each physical drive.

So yes it can be done.

As to dual-booting that is another issue.
This CAN be done on another partition as long as the older OS is installed first. For example if you are currently running XP and you want Vista also just create a partition for Vista and boot up with the Vista CD. When it asks where to install to point it to the partition/drive you selected.

When you are finished every time you start the machine you will be prompted for which OS you want to run...in this case XP or Vista.

You will also jave to install any programs you want to run inside of Vista . Although there are exceptions this is the best way for them to run properly.

Let us know what you decide and we can advise further...Thanks, I will make a decison when I get home in a few days and post as to if all went well.