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[S Freud]

So I just picked up the WD My Book for a little extra storage, I have a 40GB HD on my laptop. I am about to run Norton Ghost to back up my laptop HD to reformat since I only have 2GB of free space left. I go to run Ghost and it says that I should Defragment before running the backup, problem is that when I try to run the defrag it tells me that there isn't enough volume percentage, it needs at least %15 and I only have %2.

What should I do?

I have tried to delete unused files/games/programs but the rest of the stuff I need.

thanks for any help.

S Freud

 

[corkyg]

OK - if you can't delete anything, then off load a bunch onto media such as DVD or CDR with a straight copy function using Explorer. You can also copy files directly to another HDD. You really can't operate unless you have about 10% of the drive's capacity free.

 

[tatteredpotato]

Copy and music or video onto the external hdd, defrag, bring it back, backup. That is assuming you have enough files you can easily move off of it.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Other solution: don't use Ghost. I've never been a fan of Ghost and lots of people have horror stories about it. You'll have some horror stories with any imaging software, as there are always chances of error, but I've used Acronis TrueImage for quite a long time with zero issues. They have several different packages you should investigate; TrueImage is a lot more than just "make a drive image" so it may be overkill. One of their packages would suit your needs I'm sure
http://www.acronis.com

 

[ShellGuy]

True Image for the win alex...........




Will G.

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Other solution: don't use Ghost. I've never been a fan of Ghost and lots of people have horror stories about it. You'll have some horror stories with any imaging software, as there are always chances of error, but I've used Acronis TrueImage for quite a long time with zero issues. They have several different packages you should investigate; TrueImage is a lot more than just "make a drive image" so it may be overkill. One of their packages would suit your needs I'm sure
http://www.acronis.com

IMO Ghost 2003 was the last good version of Ghost. Acronis TrueImage ownz Ghost's ass now though. So much better and I've yet to have a problem using it.