Montol Posted January 25, 2004 Posted January 25, 2004 Just looking for a short quick answer. After reading, etc. I keep on hearing the word Ghost brought up. Like everything else, everyone and their mother has 'exactly' what it means and of course I've become confused. If I've gotten the general idea though, the outcome might make my life easier. I tend to give clean installs of WinXP OS far too often. If I was to Ghost a clean version of WinXP onto an old POS HDD, could I basically imprint that version onto a partition in my current HDD to get an instant clean version? Or am I being misinformed again? Thanks guys. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exeter_acres Posted January 25, 2004 Posted January 25, 2004 You are correct.... Ghost is Norton Ghost... I love it.. I use it for backups. I clone one harddrive to another hard drive, so should one fail, I can clone the Ghost image back.... and your idea is an excellent one... build the system, install your apps and get it the way you want, then make a Ghost image.... something goes wrong and you can just restore that ghost image... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montol Posted January 26, 2004 Posted January 26, 2004 So, I get my system to the way I want it, Ghost it onto a blank HDD, and I'm golden? As for transferring to create a 'new' HDD from my Ghost, do I need to format that partition, or can I just stick it right on over the top? Either way isn't bad, but formatting is still a pain. Now that the idea works, I just need the logistics Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ph33rh4x Posted January 26, 2004 Posted January 26, 2004 no you dont need to format, you just run norton ghost and somewhere there should be an option to install an image and boom there you go Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montol Posted January 26, 2004 Posted January 26, 2004 Sweeeeeeet. Thanks guys. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
c0ld Posted February 2, 2004 Posted February 2, 2004 Or you could backup oldschool using batchs that copy \Windows\*.* to another folder B) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caffeinejunkie Posted February 2, 2004 Posted February 2, 2004 I don't have any big harddrives laying around so i always ghost to a cd. Sure it takes like 4 cds but it's easier to me. Or one dvd if i had a dvd burner Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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