[ner]

Cananyone help me out here;

Under Winpe (Vista) I am runniung ghost as my recovery program.

This is my switch command:

Ghost32.exe -clone,MODE=restore,SRC=1:2\BACKUP.GHO,dst=1:1 -sure -quiet -span -FX

Partition 1 on disk 1 is the C:\ drive

Partition 2 on disk 1 is the D:\ drive ( on this drive i have ghost image called backup.gho only

Program runs fine, finds and then restores the backup image. However after the recovery has taken place I do not have a second parttion, just 1 now the "Backup.gho!" image is now siting on the C:\ drive also?

I thought that my switch said recover image to Disk 1: Partition 1 ?

[submix8c]

MODE=restore is a file-to-disk operation. MODE=prestore is a file-to-partition operation.
Go here -
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_.../ghost/manuals/
and get Ghost_ref_guide.pdf for all information you need (this is for Ghost 8 but is probably applicable to you as well). This is in case you don't have it already. Read the sections on Command Line Switches and Cloning carefully. Appears you may have used a MODE=create when creating the backup instead of MODE=pcreate. Warning - if doing partition-only backup/restore you may want to be prepared to recreate the boot sector (MBR). Usually, MODE=create/MODE=restore is the combo used to clone entire disk-to-disk and this is not your case.

Just read the Ref. HTH (and be careful you don't wipe your backup and not have a good "restored C-" partition or else you'll be reinstalling)

[ner]

Many thanks great help

All sorted now, fully working

Cheers