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Can someone provide a link to data backup/ghost/system partitioning tutorials?

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iamtrout

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Can someone provide a link to data backup/ghost/system partitioning tutorials? I find this stuff extremely interesting and would like to learn more.

I guess I do have a couple of nagging questions.

How powerful is ghost? Will it restore EVERYTHING like registry settings, drivers, and delete files that were created after ghosting?

I want to set up a seperate partition just for Windows so that when it dies it can die alone and not affect anything else. But what happens when I format the Windows partition? Won't programs and games in the non-windows partition not work anymore with the new Windows install because file associations and registry settings from the old install have been destroyed? This happened to me before. I had a 5 gig XP partition that went bad, so I formatted it. After reinstall hardly anything in my programs/games partition worked anymore.
 
I have no experience with any version of Ghost later than that included in Norton Systemworks Professional 2002.

That version of Ghost requires the creation of two dedicated PC-DOS or MS-DOS boot floppies, one used in creation of a partition image file on CD(s) and the other used in restoring the partition from the CD image file. You can image/restore individual partitions or an entire HD.

I have restored my C:\System partition several times from a spanned-CD image file. In every instance, the restoration was successful - with all registry settings exactly as they were on the date the image was recorded.

With this Ghost version, once you have created the two DOS boot floppies, you don't need the Windows portion of the program at all to image or restore. I have since uninstalled Systemworks pro completely.

These comments do not apply to the most-recent Ghost 9 program, which is Windows-based and may or may not be as reliable as the always-reliable DOS versions.
 
Sorry - I didn't answer your other questions.

Once you record a system image file, it is an exact snapshot-in-time. Your registry settings will be exactly as they were when the image file was created.

If a game or program was installed on your C:\System partition after image-creation, it will be completely absent from that partition after restoring the partition from the image file.

If a program or game were installed on a separate dedicated partition (Such as D:\Apps or E:\Games), there will be no record of installation in the registry after restoring C:\System from the image file - even though the folders still exist in the other partition(s). They will have to be re-installed.

The requirement to re-install a few programs or games after partition-restoration is trivial - when compared to the time and effort required for a clean installation, re-configuration of all your preferential settings, etc. Partition-restoration from saved image takes 30 minutes or less.

Hope this helps!
 
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