Partitioning and Image Ghost Restore

Update 28 Jun 2008, Sat
Finally, cause found. When all partitions are set as primary, then the boot flag must be set on the Window OS partition while the rest set as inactive.

Update 27 Jun 2008, Fri
Partition and then a re-installation from the recovery disk. The windows start up files kept turning up on the wrong partition. There is a wrong setting somewhere... it's now nearing dawn.

Update 25 Jun 2008, Wed
Burnt System Rescue CD on a mini CD-R with ImgBurn.

Update 24 Jun 2008, Tue
Downloaded the System Rescue CD ISO file.

Someday in-between
An informative article gave solutions to my two needs - partitioning and image ghost restore.

Someday in-between
The laptop came with only one partition installed, not the most efficient design. At least need one partition for the operating system + applications and another for data storage. How to get two partitions without having to backup my data files somewhere else?

Today 20 Jun 2008, Fri
The operating system is getting more cranky since the incident with the Trojan Horse. The outdated Norman anti-virus kept popping warning messages as it wasn't able to wipe it out completely.