I have been using Ghost 2003 since it came out and used it to clone at least once a month. I recently picked up a refurbished Dell D630 to replace a D620 I had. The D630 has the hidden system restore partition and although I used a .793 boot disk from a D620 clone that I made on the D630 and was able to clone the new drive the clone would boot, allow me to log on and then quickly log me off. I could not update the new Ghost 2003 install from .775 to .793 using the links provided here so after messing with it for 3 days I downloaded the FREE Acronis DiscWizard from Seagate and it cloned with no problem.

I successfully cloned a Toshiba SATA 80GB internal to a Seagate 80GB SATA in the media bay using a SATA 2nd drive caddy I got off of ebay. Interesting that I can use Ghost 2003 via windows on the D630 to ghost between my D620 60GB IDE and the Seagate SATA clones (which were 1 partition plus the hidden Dell Diagnostic partition) but I could not succesfully clone the drive with the Dell system restore on it without using DiscWizard. Hopefully this helps save someone some time.  WD also has a version of Acronis for their drives. I may need that to clone to my new 320GB Scorpio Black.

Yes it's an XP SP3 recovery partition. I was able to clone my Seagate to my new WD Scorpio with the DiscWizard with no problems. I was also working on some images for my kids' old laptops and I was able to use The Symantec link to update Ghost 2003 to .793...go figure on some old C series Dells.

Figured out why I could not update LiveUpdate In IE...I had to go to Tools> internet options>Connections>LAN settings and check "Automatically detect settings" This probably won't allow me to clone in Ghost since the boot floppies didn't work but I'll try during my next clone. Again, I  hope this info helps some poor soul

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You failed to answer the most important (interesting?) question that Dan Goodell asked in his reply # 1:

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Did you try to boot to the PC-Restore partition--and did it load successfully?  You don't have to actually restore anything--the question is can you access it?!