Quick Norton GHOST Question

[18rabbit]

Had a catastrophic hardware failure with my laptop. HW is fixed, currently loading the rescues and recover/product recovery disks. Have everything else backed up on external (USB) HDD using Ghost. I have never loaded a Ghost backup to restored a sys from a Ghost file, never thought I would have to.<br /><br />Is there is simple way to restore my laptop from the Ghost file on the external HDD or should I take the time to read the Ghost manual to learn about any special consideration I need to know about???<br /><br />Edit: don't know if it matters but I'm using Norton Ghost v10.0.

 

[Solittle]

Re: Quick Norton GHOST Question

Were it me I would rather follow what Norton says in the manual about using their software than what you might pickup here. Ghost is a market leader so I would follow their procedures.<br /><br />I looked at Ghost as a backup for my system but bought Acronis True Image as it is completely Windows based and easy to use - not that that is a help to you now.

 

[18rabbit]

Re: Quick Norton GHOST Question

Thanks, So Little. Decided I should prob read the manual anyways. Funny thing was I was talking to IBM support this afternoon and the tech said he had a little Ghost experience but preferred the IBM stuff. Turns out there is IBM software embedded in my laptop that I didn’t know about. It does the same thing as Ghost, except it also makes a compressed copy of the back up point in a protected partition of the internal HDD so that at anytime no mater where you are you can restore your system, a HDD crash excepted of course. The IBM backup stuff is actually part software and part hardware integrated in to their ThinkPad laptops. I’m getting too old for these learning curves. Beginning to feel like coax; prefer a long gentle curve.

 

[rwise]

Re: Quick Norton GHOST Question

I used ghost on my home unit, killed the OS on the C drive, corrupted the swap file. I have talked with others that use it and they say it happens from time to time. I am looking at Acronis true image now. (15 day free trial)

 

[Solittle]

Re: Quick Norton GHOST Question

rwise - I have been beeen using True Image for a couple of years and it gives me the comfort level I was looking for. I use my slave hard drive only for back-up. It takes about 30 minutes to back-up 24 gig from the master. I keep two generations back and do the back-up about once a month. I usually clean out the junk files and use Easy Cleaner to do the registry clean-up before doing the back-up. I do not use either the automatic scheduling or the incremental back-up functions of True Image to keep it simple (for me). I had to do a recovery once and it was easy and no problem.

 

[rwise]

Re: Quick Norton GHOST Question

What I have seen of the Acronis products I like, I use disk director at work. I made a backup of my "new" c drive at home with the 15 day version, easy to use and fast! Never again will I use ghost!

 

[eeboater]

Re: Quick Norton GHOST Question

I've been using Ghost for years -- way back before it was even owned by Symantec.<br /><br />Works great - only if you know how to use it properly. <br /><br />I use a second drive, which is larger than the source drive. Create an Image of the source drive onto the secondary drive.<br /><br />Works great.<br /><br />Sean