I've used a number of imaging applications, and Ghost was not my favorite by a long shot. It was not reliable when restoring the image. I now use TrueImage from Acronis. I don't know about the newer versions. They don't sound so good to me. I use ver. 8.
Basically, they work the same way. You make a disk, CD or floppy, boot from the disk, and follow the prompts to image your entire drive (C: drive). You can put that image anywhere except the drive you are imaging. I put it on another partition, or an external HD. I have never had any luck burning straight to CD or DVD from any imaging software.
Once you have the image made, you can burn it to a DVD/CD (I doubt you will be able to use a CD anymore).
To restore your system *exactly* the way it was, simply boot from the same disk you made to make the image and follow the prompts to restore. This is not a command line application, so its really just a matter of clicking.
I can image my 8GB C: drive in less than 10 minutes. Restoring is about the same.
They claim you can do this now from within Windows, but again, I wouldn't rely on that. Imaging a system that is in use is asking for trouble in my opinion. Anyway, if you can't take 10 minutes to backup your entire system, you're too busy.
I've pooched my system a number of times, and it is great to have it clean and running in just a few minutes, just the way you left it. Or if you lose your HD, get a virus, or anything that screws things up, you're up and running quickly.
I hope this helps. Hal On 2/10/2007 8:14 AM, Ray Roney wrote:
I dont know if I asked about this before or not, but here goes anyways:I know Norton Ghost allows you to image a PC, then essentially re-load your computer from scratch in almost 1/10th of the time (in my case anyways).The only thing is: I've used GHOST to reload the OS with Work, but would like to learn how to do it for my home PC & my notebook.Any help is appreciated, as always. :) -- Ray -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't pick lemons.See all the new 2007 cars <http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html;_ylc=X3oDMTE0OGRsc3F2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDbmV3Y2Fycw--> at Yahoo! Autos. <http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html;_ylc=X3oDMTE0OGRsc3F2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDbmV3Y2Fycw-->
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