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Image C Drive using Norton Ghost?Need Help ....
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peterh 
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Posted 19 May 2004 - 06:20 PM
Sounds like some sort of conflict with the hardware. I use Ghost 2002 with no problems.
When, restoring, just boot off the Ghost boot floppy (or CD if you elected to make your image disk bootable) and then you can restore the image on a blank hard disk. Nothing else needs installing before hand. It certainly makes reinstalling Windows quicker....
When, restoring, just boot off the Ghost boot floppy (or CD if you elected to make your image disk bootable) and then you can restore the image on a blank hard disk. Nothing else needs installing before hand. It certainly makes reinstalling Windows quicker....
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Posted 15 July 2004 - 06:37 PM
it can and in most cases will take atleast 3-5 min. before the installation of the Drivers is complete so just kick back and chillout......
however if you chose to create a bootable CD/DVD image (and you should have), then when you boot from this CD/DVD it will install the EXT. USB drivers with the quickness
less than 5 sec.....
Dont ask me why
just let me know if it holds true with you
however if you chose to create a bootable CD/DVD image (and you should have), then when you boot from this CD/DVD it will install the EXT. USB drivers with the quickness
less than 5 sec.....
Dont ask me why
just let me know if it holds true with you
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Posted 15 July 2004 - 08:46 PM
Mine's Ghost 2003 as well. Never had a problem with it yet.
Why waste DVD-Rs? Why don't you backup to a DVD-RW? Keep two such backups at a time, updating one each per session. DVD-RWs or DVD+RWs can be erased and re-used (eg. use the Erase function in Nero).
Backup all your core software on to the DVD-RW/DVD+RW - operating system, essential utilities, OS security updates, firewall/antivirus updates,etc. Load your apps and personal files each time separately. This will ensure you always have a clean workable restore, and will certainly reduce the time to a full restore.
Re USB devices, do understand that you must configure Ghost appropriately before starting a backup process. You'll find that there's a configuration setting that you must make, for external USB devices, in the Options part of Ghost.
Something else worth considering - in addition to backing up to a writeable external medium - is to keep aside a separate partition of your main hard drive and to keep a Ghost backup of C: in that. (It'd need to be at least the size of the used part of your C: partition). As long as you know that, at any one time, it contains 100% good data, you can restore from that partition instead, and very quickly! All in all, for backup, it's best to keep a number of options around.
Why waste DVD-Rs? Why don't you backup to a DVD-RW? Keep two such backups at a time, updating one each per session. DVD-RWs or DVD+RWs can be erased and re-used (eg. use the Erase function in Nero).
Backup all your core software on to the DVD-RW/DVD+RW - operating system, essential utilities, OS security updates, firewall/antivirus updates,etc. Load your apps and personal files each time separately. This will ensure you always have a clean workable restore, and will certainly reduce the time to a full restore.
Re USB devices, do understand that you must configure Ghost appropriately before starting a backup process. You'll find that there's a configuration setting that you must make, for external USB devices, in the Options part of Ghost.
Something else worth considering - in addition to backing up to a writeable external medium - is to keep aside a separate partition of your main hard drive and to keep a Ghost backup of C: in that. (It'd need to be at least the size of the used part of your C: partition). As long as you know that, at any one time, it contains 100% good data, you can restore from that partition instead, and very quickly! All in all, for backup, it's best to keep a number of options around.
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