Do any of you use Norton Ghost and when do you image your drive?

[millsy]

I just setup new PC with XP running, should I get it exactly how I want it and image or install all other apps and then image??
(never used the software before so unsure)

 

[Jeff H]

millsy, FWIW I Ghosted my Win98SE install after I got it running stable, w/ the corresponding system drivers (sound card, video, SCSI, etc). My hard drive is partitioned into two drives, so I made an image of my C: drive to D:, then once inside Windows burned the image to a CD. The only app I installed prior to the image and burn was Office. The goal is to keep the Ghost image less than 650MB so it fits on a CD-R. Yes, you can compress the image but you don't want it so large it won't compress to less than 650MB.

 

[Mitzi]

I used to image my Windows 98 partition with Ghost after I had finished installing the OS, all drivers and vital utilities such as Winzip, MBM5, VirusScaner etc.

Since moving to Win2K I've not bothered Ghosting the drive - I guess I'm confident I wont have to format and reinstall so often.

 

[millsy]

Thing is, I just put XP on and it takes enough space up. How is that going to fit onto a 650Mb CDR??
I don't suppose there's any point running XP is there? with all the system restore etc. I was just a little worried as I have a IBM 60GXP 40Gb and don't won't it to go pear shaped and loose it.

I have only setup 1 partition with 39.2Gb. Would it be better to create 2 and store my files, mp3s onto D:.
How do you setup yours?

 

[bacillus]

you should be able to span cdrs with the new versions of ghost!

 

[Jeff H]

bacillus is right, in that the newer versions of Ghost will span CD's. I have version 5 and it doesn't do that, so I keep the image sized to fit one CD-R.