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184469	2003-10-19 04:58:00	Modern hard drives are quite large, but Norton Ghost only backups the data - so if your drive was 80 gigs in size but only contains 10 gigs of data, then only 10 gigs will be compressed and imaged. As what has already been said, it is much better to have a drive partitioned into smaller sections for both maintenance (scandisk and defragging) and for when you want to create an image. Going through and cleaning out any unwanted data and temp files is also recommended before making an image - no need to image unnecessary rubbish. Instead of buying monster sized drives, it is better to get two moderate sized ones (master and slave). You can keep images of each on the other alternative drive and saving images to disk rather than CD really speeds up the process. I recently dropped an 7 gig OS image back onto the master, and from start to finish the whole process took less than 5 minutes. Having the dual drives also means if you lose one drive due to failure, you will have the image safe on another.	Jen C (20)
184470	2003-10-19 05:01:00	I have it, but use Drive Image 2002 on my 98SE PC as its easier to use and hasnt failed me yet I try to keep my C: drive down to about 2 gigs and install anything big later on just essentials basically .	kiwibeat (304)
184471	2003-10-20 00:51:00	I use norton ghost .It helps me recover everything.Don't u just love these utilities that recovers everything.My hardrive is 2gb.I believe that how large the ghost image size depends on how much space u have used on that drive.And since norton ghost compresses the image.I think its right to say that if u have used 1gb then the ghost image size would be 500mb around approximately	yingxuan (3330)
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