HP Pavilion DV8el Entertainment recovery and partitioning drive C

Someone must have done this before, but I just cannot find anything...
I had to replace drive C for bad sectors, and now the Recovery Disks I had made three years ago crash with blue screen on partitioning the drive.
Nothing can be installed via that **bleep** disks (which are new because I have never used them before!)
I have a clean Ghost image of the whole C drive (before it got corrupted), partition by partition, so I really want to use that to recover my software and configurations. But I do not know how to do that without going throught the ununseable Recovery discs.
The problem seems to be that Ghost looks for the four original partitions and since it cannot find them it does not know where to install the C data... Can I manually partition C? I have a Linux Mint 13 system on a bootable USB drive, so I can mount and format C, I just need to know HOW (FAT32, NTFS, HIDDEN...) and what size/flags to give partitions...
I hope someone can help! Thanks a million, Gabriele
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I understand you need to restore your system software after replacing the HDD.
You mentioned you have a Ghost image. Are you referring to Norton Ghost? If so, what version of Ghost was used to make the image?
If you do have Ghost, then this thread may be useful for you.
http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/How-do-I-Restore-Ghost-Image-to-a-new-Hard-Driv...
Additionally, this document covers restoring a Ghost image on a new HDD using Ghost 15.
https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/kb20091020110134EN_EndUserProfile_en_us;j...
I suspect the process is similar for other versions of Ghost. Once I know the exact version of Ghost, I may be able to find something more specific for your version of Ghost.
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