Questions about Ghost, Newbi Here!

[Racnmasn]

I just purchased Ghost not the newest version though. I have always heard of its excellent capabilities so I bought it. But I don't really know how to use it or really what it can do.

I would like to burn a copy of my harddrive onto a cdr so if i want to restore my system i can just put the cd in. Or partition my harddrive and burn a copy of my default drive to the partition that I will use for emergency so if something goes wrong with my default drive i can just format it and copy my backup (emergency) drive to the default drive.

Also if you know of a website that can teach me how to use it would be great. Or if have other suggestions for Ghost please let me know.

 

[IamDavid]

Its a pretty self explanitory program...

 

[Basse]

If you only have one harddrive to work with, here is what I believe you should do:

1. Partition on format your HDD leaving ~1.5GB of space free.

2. Install your OS, programs etc.

3. Defrag your C drive in safe mode (Thanks Modus for the tip, reakky sped things up for me!😉)

4. Boot the computer with a floppy containing GDisk (comes with Ghost), Format and Ghost.

5. Use GDisk to create an extended partition as well as logical out of your ~1.5GB remaining disk space.

6. Format the drive and run Ghost (Partition -> Image) and place your .GHO on your new partition.

7. Boot into the OS again and burn your .GHO to a CDR (preferrably using your Floppy used as boot image for your CD.

Also, you'd be better off to have both a copy on CDR as well as your HDD if it crashed on you.

Check the Symantec FAQ and Knowledge Base for more info on this (or post a reply🙂)

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