Thank you for the response, I tried running Diskpart rescan and list disk, unfortunately it says that there are no fixed disks on the system.. I also managed to get Bart PE running by using the peinst script and then building the boot.ini and peboot.bin, peldr files in C: and copying them over to the partition I made for Bart PE.. But now I'm stuck again, Norton Ghost cannot lock the partition when I try to restore a partition image from a partition to another partition on the same disk. I'm really at a loss, and am starting to think it just can't be done!