The BEAUTY of Ghosting!!!!

[OneOfTheseDays]

Oh god, where have you been all my life Norton Ghost 2002. Out of a whim i decided to try it out, since i am getting fed up of constantly reformatting my computer and spending hours putting it back together. I tried ghost out on a perfectly installed system (basic drivers, and all apps). I put the image on a cd and it took a whopping 10 minutes to fully restore my computer!!! This is such an invaluable tool.

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[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< Oh god, where have you been all my life Norton Ghost 2002. Out of a whim i decided to try it out, since i am getting fed up of constantly reformatting my computer and spending hours putting it back together. I tried ghost out on a perfectly installed system (basic drivers, and all apps). I put the image on a cd and it took a whopping 10 minutes to fully restore my computer!!! This is such an invaluable tool. >>


i got it waaaay back...but never really used it. by the time you reinstall windows, there's gonna be newer drivers, newer windows updates, etc...might as well just ghost it right after finishing the install, that way you can just restore installation and then get the newest drivers/updates...hey i should have done that...heheh oh well..

 

[WarCon]

I fully agree that ghosts are so very nice. I need to refresh my ghost image, since I am pretty happy with the way its running now. Heck only took me 15 minutes to ghost 3+gigs of info into a 2gig compressed file. Thats well worth the piece of mind.

I had a question for you more advanced ghost users. If I make a boot floppy with my CD Burners dos driver on it, will ghost let me burn one big file onto consecutive cds? If it doesn't do it automatically please explain how..........

 

[Yossarian]

Yes you can do that. You don't need to load any drivers onto the floppy by hand, Ghost will take care of it during image creation by prompting you to insert a bootable floppy.