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Bob:
Thanks for your reply. It was a great bit of info that I can use. I am
using Ghost 9 right now. The original serial number that came with my
purchase from Office Max did not work. Had to call Symantec for a new one.
To my surprise, I got good help in less than 30 minutes. I hope that I am
not out of line, but I have a question about a clean install of Windows
XPSP2 Home Edition. Can I do this without SP2 being slipstreamed to the OEM
copy of XP? I have a separate CD with SP2 on it. Thanks.
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Lavert Bryant
Powder Springs GA
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> "Bob Harris" <rharris270[SPAM]@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> GHOST and similar programs make a file, called an image, of everything on
>> either (1) a whole hard drive, or, (2) a single partition on the hard
>> drive. In general the partition image is more useful than the full disk
>> image, because the partition image does not save a copy of the free
>> space, nor certain files that windows will re-create automatically, like
>> pagefile.sys.
>>
>> Most backup programs that make such images can write them to another hard
>> drive, internal or external (USB, frewire, or network), CDs, maybe DVDs,
>> probably tape.
>>
>> Many have the ability to recover a single file or a directory tree, as
>> well as the whole partition or drive. Many have the ability to make the
>> image in convenient sized pieces for possible later copying to CD or DVD.
>> While the safest backup is probably to write-once optical media, it is
>> also the slowest. Thus, I regularly backup to an external hard drive
>> (USB 2.0), but only occassionally copy an image from there to a DVD.
>>
>> One caution: Be sure that the backup program has a way to recover the
>> boot partition, the one with the operatingg system. Some cheaper/free
>> programs can recover things only if window is working OK, which is not
>> all that useful. A program like GHOST has an option to make bootable
>> floppies or a bootable CD to handle the case of restoring the partition
>> with the operating system.
>>
>> Such programs can also be used to copy a disk to a large disk. But, if
>> the disk is of a sufficiently different type (e.g., ATA/100 vs SATA/150),
>> a "repair" installation of XP will also be required.
>>
>> I have used GHOST up through version 2002 with excellent results on win98
>> and XP. The newer GHOST 9, which is really based on a program called
>> Drive Image, sounds even better, but I have not tried it. I have also
>> had excellent results with Acronis True Image, up through version 8
>> (latest). I find True Image friendlier than GHOST for a home user.
>> However, GHOST has dozens of addiitonal bell & whistles.
>>
>> "Lavert" <b_lavert@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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>>> Can a program like Norton's Ghost backup a whole drive and restore same
>>> without reloading all programs? Thanks in advance.
>>>
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> Bob,
> PMFJI, I have just purchased an Iomega 160 Gig USB External HD. The
> software include an Iomega backup program and Norton Ghost 2003. Running
> both seem somewhat redundant. To date, I have run Ghost once and have the
> Iomega backing up "Documents and Settings" every night. Is running just
> Ghost sufficient protection? How often would you recommend running Ghost?
> I guess my questions are more philosophical than technical. TIA
>
> Richard Thiess
> Norcross, GA
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