Image a .v2i file mounted as a drive letter?

Can Symantec Ghost create an image from a v2i file mounted as a drive letter, please?  (If so, can the trial version do so for a 25GB image?)

I ask because I'm a lifetime Norton Ghost user with a trickly problem.  My boot drive died, and while waiting for RMA replacement, it's backup drive's filesystem somehow got corrupted.

Over here I was advised to mount my v2i file and fix it with CHKDSK, then use something (the poster couldn't recall if it was Symantec Ghost or Microsoft ImageX; Norton Ghost cannot) to image the mounted drive.

Googling about ImageX, even if it can do what I need it doesn't look easy to use particularly with my WinXP Pro sp3.