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Question for those with Ghost 2003

episodic

episodic

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Background: I'm always downloading trying new things out - hence reinstalls every 3 months or so.

Question: Will this work?

Setup 2x40 gig harddrives & ghost 2003. Can I ghost my complete install to drive d, then recover from it (rather than doing the lengthy reinstalls?)

I'm familiar using ghost to restore a computer from a cd in win 98 days. However, it'd take several cds for my default install.

What concerns me is if I hose drive c, how do I get to the ghost image on drive d? I don't have a floppy drive, so that is out if that is the case.

Hope I'm being clear. . .

Thanks!
 
Originally posted by: buyer262000
Background: I'm always downloading trying new things out - hence reinstalls every 3 months or so.

Question: Will this work?

Setup 2x40 gig harddrives & ghost 2003. Can I ghost my complete install to drive d, then recover from it (rather than doing the lengthy reinstalls?)

I'm familiar using ghost to restore a computer from a cd in win 98 days. However, it'd take several cds for my default install.

What concerns me is if I hose drive c, how do I get to the ghost image on drive d? I don't have a floppy drive, so that is out if that is the case.

Hope I'm being clear. . .

Thanks!
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You don't have a floppy? Go pick one up for $10!! 😛

I take it you don't have a DVD burner? If you do you can do what I've done:

I did a fresh install of WinXP, installed all updates, patches, and SPs. Once that was done I disabled all services and then installed all apps I use daily (AIM, Firewall, etc). Once done, I cleaned up the drive of unecissary files and defragged. I then saved the ghost image to DVD. The great thing about doing it this way is that you don't need a floppy to boot off...it boots off the DVD. If you don't have a DVD drive, I'm wondering if you can span it across a couple CDs. Might be a little extra work, but it also might be your only option if you don't have a floppy.

IF you do ge a floppy, then yea....you can just save the ghost image to your D drive (it is a seperate physical drive, right?), boot off the floppy and restore from there.

Hope this helps! :beer:
 
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