Restoring hard drive

[ae708]

Can one use a utility like Ghost to make a backup of their hard drive at any given point and use it to restore their computer to that configuration in the manner of a factory restore disk (reformat and restore)?

 

[4poco]

Re: Restoring hard drive

Myself use ghost, I create an image (C on disk.<br />If my computer crashes, will format hard drive and then insert my ghost back-up disks. This will bring it back to its original state that was backed up. Have even restored my back-up to a different hard drive. Works for me!

 

[Gary H NC]

Re: Restoring hard drive

The best way with norton ghost is to partition your hard drive into two parts..Drive C volume1 and drive C volume2...or just split it and call 2 drive D.Anyway you can create a ghost image at anytime on that second partition.<br />When that is done you can update the ghost image as often as you like.<br />If the computer totally crashes and you can't get into windows just boot with a floppy then type in D:gho....it will run setup and restore from your ghost image.

 

[rwise]

Re: Restoring hard drive

last time I used ghost will be the last time I use it! It distroied the origanal drive data, the dude at the computer shop said he sees it all the time! I now use Acronos.

 

[ae708]

Re: Restoring hard drive

thanks for the replies guys.