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i agree with KevinG. Acronis very easy i image vm drives all the time with it.

I've been playing with linux a bit lately. I have a 1GB thumb drive that I can run Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop, take the thumb drive out and I'm back to XP Pro. Ubuntu has a nice partitioning utility that's pretty easy to use, you can resize, delete and create partitions - Partition Magik does the same thing.
I'm sure there are some nice Imaging programs available for Linux as well.

AVG isn't only a good free program, but a good pay one as well. For the $35 a year you get automatic scanning that you can schedule when you want it, and better support access as well.

I've lost faith in Norton Security products. There are just to many problems with them. I really miss Norton Disk Editor, but I still have a copy if I want to mangle a disk with it. The AV product seems to miss more viruses than it catches and it is not unusual for me to find several co-existing with it to the degradation of the system.

AVG is okay but i like Avast! better.. cheaper too, if you decide to buy.

Norton is complete garbage anymore and i insist my customers use something else if i am to be responsible for their computers.

as much as i miss the old Norton suite of disk utilities, i would not recommend using antiquated software on a modern OS or file system. the chances of creating far bigger problems than the one you were trying to fix are too high.

Make sure you get the latest version of Acronis if your going to use it. The earlier versions only let you copy physical drives, not logical drives.

As far as Ghost and NAV, I have used them for years with no issues. Keep in mind, Norton Anti-virus and Norton System Works and Norton Internet Security are all different animals. I would not run NSW or NIS anymore.