[nffc]

OMFG that was a total nightmare.

Installed Ghost, ran it, Advanced > Clone
Selected the partitions I wanted and clicked through
rebooted "missing operating system" - which was as far as I got when I got it about 21 months ago, then I gave up and just reformatted.
Thought... not gonna do that this time.
put the Ghost CD in and loaded the command prompt, found it and then loaded the ghost from dos, chose again, all seemed to be going fine then it comes up with an error (think it was 130060 or something, anyway it wasn't in the user guide)... so I tried it again. Twice more. Same thing.

By this time I'd given up on the Ghost (no puns) and thought... ooh can I still get into XP?
Rebooted and same thing "missing operating system"
swapped the Ghost CD for the XP CD and went into recovery console
ran fixmbr and fixall and rebooted "ntldr is missing" - hmm
went back into the XP setup and noticed that Ghost had faffed my drive letters around... the silly Ghost thing had created a C partition full of junk, and Windows was D, it was looking for C:\ntldr and couldn't find it... so, deleted Ghost's silly partition and exited the setup
You can imagine the look on my face when it booted XP.

Why the f*ck would it do this?