Mayayana wrote:
It may depend on the imaging program,

Yes. And you didn't mention the imaging
program. So how can anyone else know what
can be done? Whatever the program is, your
options should be explained in the directions.
If not then why not just try doing it with a
dummy partition?

I'm using ATI.
I haven't found *this* particular query answered in their docs, but I may be
missing it.

I use BootIt, which I think allows me to resize
while restoring, to any size = data size and
= empty space where partition will be created.

I'm assuming that is as long as it does NOT require *moving* any existing
partition data - that is, iff there is sufficient free space, no problemo.
Then resizing shouldn't be a problem. Otherwise it has the potential to be
a Big problem due to the overhead of requiring moving existing partition
data to another region of the hard drive, a very time consuming process. So
even with BootIt (Bing), I'm not sure you know for sure.

But I don't think the older version of BootIt
did that. As I recall the image had to be written
as it had been created, then any resizing would
be a separate step. In other words, this is not
a question about laws of physics. It's a question
about your software, and we don't even know
what your software is!

Didn't you ask this weeks ago? Have you actually
been sitting around for weeks wondering whether
you can do what you want? You could easily do
a test run in an hour or so.

I asked something related to this before (some senility on my part, perhaps)