About to do a fresh install of windows...

[Atlantean]

I am thinking about creating a "Restore point" once I get all my programs and everything installed. Is there a way to do this so that it saves the information to a dvd?
Oh and which drive should I install it to? I am taking windows off my sata drive because it is very noisy... so should I put it on my 160 or my 80 gig drive?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Personally, I'd much rather have a Ghost backup of the OS, programs, etc., than using a restore point. You've got much more control and you don't need a working copy of Windows to restore the backup. IE, if you system crashes and you can't boot back into Windows, is it possible to load the restore point?

As far as the HD goes, I'd put it on either of the drives that you prefer, as you've got more than enough space.

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[Atlantean]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Personally, I'd much rather have a Ghost backup of the OS, programs, etc., than using a restore point. You've got much more control and you don't need a working copy of Windows to restore the backup. IE, if you system crashes and you can't boot back into Windows, is it possible to load the restore point?

As far as the HD goes, I'd put it on either of the drives that you prefer, as you've got more than enough space.

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Ghosting? Thats writing all the data to another harddrive right? Or can I write it to dvds?

 

[Sid59]

ghost can write straight to dvd media .. but thats not fun.

just drop the ghost to another partition and burn it off ..

restore points die delete after they age. ghost .. just rocks.

 

[nageov3t]

ghost does indeed rock

with ghosting the image onto a CD/DVD (which does have its uses), does anyone know a) what the compression rate is, and b) can the image be spread out onto multiple disks?

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: loki8481
ghost does indeed rock

with ghosting the image onto a CD/DVD (which does have its uses), does anyone know a) what the compression rate is, and b) can the image be spread out onto multiple disks?

a. compression on high is around 50%

b. span across multuple discs .. YES.

 

[Atlantean]

Originally posted by: Sid59

Originally posted by: loki8481
ghost does indeed rock

with ghosting the image onto a CD/DVD (which does have its uses), does anyone know a) what the compression rate is, and b) can the image be spread out onto multiple disks?

a. compression on high is around 50%

b. span across multuple discs .. YES.

Is this Norton Ghost you are talking about?? or what Ghost is it? If I were to back the data onto dvds then if I wanted to put it onto another drive would it have to be the same size?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Atlantean
Is this Norton Ghost you are talking about?? or what Ghost is it? If I were to back the data onto dvds then if I wanted to put it onto another drive would it have to be the same size?

No, you can restore the Ghost backup to any drive size, just as long as you have enough space for the uncompressed (original) files.

with ghosting the image onto a CD/DVD (which does have its uses), does anyone know a) what the compression rate is, and b) can the image be spread out onto multiple disks?

The compression is very good on high. I can do a full WinXP install with minimal programs and I can fit the entire ghost backup on a single CD-R using high compression.

 

[Atlantean]

Sorry, what program is this? Ghost, is it Norton? Or another company? I have heard of Norton Ghost but am not sure if there are other ones.

 

[Robor]

It's by Symantec and it is called Norton Ghost. It's an excellent program. IMO it's best used for making a single "image" and deploying it to multiple identical machines but it's great for doing a single backup as well. Quickest way to restore your fresh system load.