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| Thread ID: 33810 | 2003-05-26 08:31:00 | DATA /SYSTEM BACK-UP | WILLWILLWILLWILL (236) | Press F1 |
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| 147628 | 2003-05-31 04:34:00 | If you can format & partition Will, you can certainly make Ghost images. It is a doddle. All you are doing is creating a compressed image of your HDD and nothing happens to the original data. If you check the image and have doubts about its integrity, you just delete it amd make another. Rewriting a disk or partition from an image is similarly simple and I have never had a failure. Provided you identify the source and destination disks or partitions before you press go (and Ghost gives you all the data to check before you proceed) you can't go wrong. The only rule is to read the manual before you start, however the elemental steps of creating and rewriting images are simplicity itself. As stated in my earlier post, I keep images of the original OS, OS plus initial applications setup, and current disk status. Images are not big and disk space is cheap so keeping extra images is no hassle and saves a lot of mucking around if I want to go back in time. I could even dump the original OS back and play with that, say to test a new program, then put the latest version back when I'm finished. The options are limited only by your needs and your imagination:D If you use an earlier version Ghost requires you to use a boot disk to create an image, and the same disk to restore, however Ghost 2003 offers a Windows interface and automates the DOS processes. You would only need a Boot disk if restoring a non-operable Windows installation, or if you had installed Linux or some other OS to play with for a weekend. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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