Hi, I'm new.  I'll have more q's shortly but for the moment this is what happened and what I hope to find out about.

I have a multiboot drive, part'd to 8 with 4 OS.   It's now mounted as a slave.  I had it as master when I had the problem I'll describe but the issue I want to know about now appears in its slave configuration.

Briefly, I had wanted to do an xp install with ghost to one of the parts.   I'm in school and was using an OS from a server, an OS that is used there.  I had thought that I could choose the partition to image to but it saw only the whole drive and not the parts, so I stopped it but lost bootup as apparently the MBR got changed.  I thought I may have lost everything so mounted it as a slave, and everything is still there, so I access what I want from the new master.  I have been told that it's very difficult and expensive to try to repair the MBR so it boots properly again.   In the heat of the moment I used a small drive as master so I could check things, and 'explore' shows all the drives on the slave, and in the order they were originally.    

I wanted a larger master so I put one in with the same copy of XP as the small drive I had before, again an image,  and now I still show all slave drives/partitions, but the order is reversed!  If it matters, I did the imaging to the masters with the slave off both times.

So; what I want, is to end up with
a. the new master part'd into 3 (now 1)
b. two of the drives on the slave saved, (maybe ghosted to another drive) repartition it, and reimage those saved drives to the correct place so paths work, although they seem to work now anyway.  
If I'm totally out in space please let me know.
Thanks

The ghost version that started all this was on a cd that someone made at school.   They use it for imaging new drives sometimes.   I don't know which version it is but can check.  I did not make that image.   When I first tried to use it, I had thought it would give me the choice you say, which partition, but it didn't and only showed the whole drive.   That's why I captioned this thread as 'gotcha' which I read in the 'old forums', that thread seemed exactly what happened to me.
  At that point I stopped it, as I said that drive, now a slave, will not boot; well, it sorta will to 98 which is on the first part, and now is the last part, see first post, but it doesn't really run, basic settings sorta like safemode, and many things not visible.
Only win OS's.  I had wanted to have a drive for linux but abandoned that, may use a different comp.
To get to boot ini on the first, now slave drive, I'll have to try that later.
Thanks.

"if you didn't begin the restore, it shouldn't affect anything."
It did.  I stopped it before it started restoring, when I saw that it didn't have any partition options.
It then didn't boot, and will not boot if it's mounted as a master.  The current slave configuration is so that I can access what's on it.

well the old forums are still there:

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi

but all the old post have been imported here to the new forum.

and *both* forums have robust search features.

you could (easily) search for the word "gotcha".

just make sure to change the default time period to go back more than 7 days.

stopping a restore once it has started is bad. i coach folks to double- and triple check everything before clicking the "okay" button to begin the restore:

http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_3.htm

.. and to exit out and get help if something doesn't look quite right.