Help my hard drive broke!

[Paul Ma]

I had a Raptor 74G hard drive. Today it started making a clicking sound- screen froze, and same thing happened when I rebooted. I got Western Digital to send me a replacement, so the hardware is taken care of.

Fortunately, I used Ghost to make a backup image a few weeks ago. But I've never done a recovery using a Ghost image, so I'd like to know how that works.

Do I just reinstall Windows and Ghost on my new hard drive ,and then apply the image, or is there some boot CD that will allow me to directly recover from the image unto the new hard drive?

 

[Corpun]

Your ghost disc should be bootable and if its the current version it will search attached drives for an image file when you boot from it. Don't re-install windows/ghost on the new drive, restoring the image will do that for you. You may need to format the drive before you can write the image to it though, its been too long since I restored to a drive that wasn't already formatted and I can't remember if I had to format it with a different program 1st.

A few questions:

Which version of ghost did you use? What media is the backup on? An external drive or another drive in the computer or something else?

 

[Paul Ma]

I am using Ghost 14, and it's backed up on another internal hard drive. So I should format the drive first with the windows XP cd, then restart the computer with the Ghost cd and it will take over from there?

 

[EagleKeeper]

If you have a Ghost CD (that is bootable) boot from it.

Otherwise, you will have to create a boot media to recover the original image.

OSs may not like being overwritten while running.