Norton Ghost... Help

[LoopyJuice]

Right eveyone, I am about to format my pc after about 4 months (few niggling things annoying me and I need a clean out) I am hoping to format, get a minimal install on here and then ghost an image so all i have to do is reghost it when I want to format.

The trouble (i think) comes when I look at my paritition layout, i have 2x120GB seagates, the 1st is partitioned into 3 parts, WinXP, Apps, Games (for WinXP, Installed Apps and installed Games respectively) I want to ghost all 3 of these preferably into one image so I can just restore it to the same paritions after another format, is this possible?

However, after reading this, could I just install WinXP, get all my drivers etc on there (tv card is a nightmare for drivers, soo many of them) and then ghost just the winxp partition and suffer with reinstalling my apps and games every format...

Ideas?

[Agent]

Install everything, drivers ect, then ghost it.
You can ghost the entire HD (so all 3 partitions) onto one image.

[LoopyJuice]

hmm yeah, and I have about 20gb free on my other drive, will the image of a 120gb drive fit onto there? or does it not count free space and only image the data?

[Agent]

It only counts the image data, and a little more.
You could compress it though.

[LoopyJuice]

cheers, i formatted, reinstalled xp on it's partition, applied all m settings, theme etc, drivers, nothing on the other 2 partitions and the made an image of the XP part