1) I have never used a "ute" other than MS's Disk Manager (to remove
partitions) and Drive Image (to clone a drive). Multi-boot is an optional
feature of Windows XP, and it appeared without the intervention of
any "utes" and without my direction.

2) How does one tell Drive Image to clone a partition and not a physical
drive? The user interface says it's copying a designated logical
drive to a designated physical disk. The procedure is referred to by
Drive Image as "copy drive". It's purpose is to make a bootable copy
of a active partition. Perhaps you are using terminology and procedures
peculiar to Norton Ghost and not to Drive Image.

*TimDaniels*