Ghosting a dual boot FAT32 NTFS to another drive

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I have this nice little comp in my bedroom that I rescued from a skip, it has Win98SE and XP in dual boot, trouble is, its all installed on a pretty small HD (20 gig) and I now realise the Win98SE partition I made is to small for what I need it for.

I'll soon have a spare WD 80 gig 8mb drive I could use, I could partition this for Win98SE FAT32 and XP NTFS, if I did this, would I be able to ghost over the data from my original HD and keep dual boot FAT32/NTFS Win98SE/WinXP and keep it all bootable?

The other option as I see it, is to use something like Partition Magic installed on the XP partition on the original 20 gig HD to increase the FAT32/Win98 size (can this be done???) Then add the WD 80 gig as a slave for use in WinXP.

I'd rather not reformat and install it all again, it took age's to get this dual boot so sweet.

Any help or any other idea's gratefully appreciated.
 
So, Norton Ghost, can image the FAT32 and NTFS dual boot partitions and all the partitioned data from the 20 gig HD to the WD 80 gig (assuming I partition it first) and all will be dual bootable and exactly the same? Right?

Thanks, but I need to be sure about this.
 
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