Ghosting a clean install of an OS?

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: Wooster

does it support DVD-R/RW drives yet?

I believe Ghost doesn't have build-in burning software. You can use Nero and burn it on DVD using bootable header.

Ghost does do built in CD-Burning, I use it work for the systems I image that way. I don't know about dvd-burning though.

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: thatsright
I know a few folks may shout me down here, but hey I thought I'd mention it nonetheless:

1. Partitioning is fine ONLY if your HD doesn't fail. Because you can have as many partitions you want, but if the physical drive goes belly up then you loose all partitions. I use two physical disks and I put all of my Backup stuff on my Maxtor 80Giger and my O/S and Apps stuff is on Drive 0: my Western Digital drive that I bought in May 120Gig 8MB SE. I never back up any of my Games or Kazaa stuff

2. What about the included XP Pro Backup Utility? True it's not that advanced or fully featured, but it's free for me and does the job nicely. At first back in July when I first ran the Backup utility, I would just do a COPY operation, copying every file on the C: drive. I did this a few times after installing major drivers and apps and then quickly realized I was going to rapidly run out of space on my 40 backup partition, when each backup file was about 7-11Gig's. So now I just do incremental backups, which is a lot quicker and more manageable in file size. To do a incremental backup of 2 1/2 Gigs took about 5 minutes.

New QUESTION: Anyone know does the XP Backup Utility support compression? I'm backing up from one drive to another, so I'm not sure if this would be Software or Hardware compression? If I can do it, how good is the compressions: would the XP utility take a 5Gig backup and compress it down to 3 or 4Gig's?

Well if anyone can answer that question, I'd like to know Thanks all.

great post to show the other side.

1. i don't, and i know other people, who partition boot drives to keep everything simple. have a partition for windows. if windows bellies up then it saves time from backing up data. just move data to the 2nd partition. People are more likley to fubar the OS than the hdd crashing.

2. never tried that windows back up. but i do feel much better about backing up the OS and the files OUTSIDE of the windows GUI.

 

[Wooster]

Ghost does do built in CD-Burning, I use it work for the systems

Oh... I didn't know that. Thanks for the correction.

 

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