Backing up

**Thrush** · 23rd April 2005

After the fun i had last night i am looking into doing a full system back up so i don't have to install everything by hand again...

I have been told Norton Ghost 9 is the one to go for. What would you guys recommend?

Thanks

Cue

**-NEO-** · 23rd April 2005

Yeah Nortan Ghost is the best!

You can backup your entire system onto several CD-R(s) or DVD-R(s) - It just depends on how big your system is!

But even if your system fecks up again, you will still need a working OS to restore it from your CD-R/DVD-R

:thumbs

**Thrush** · 23rd April 2005

Originally Posted by neo

But even if your system fecks up again, you will still need a working OS to restore it from your CD-R/DVD-R

Really? Ah that's a bit crappy. I was hoping to just stick the dvd in and let it do everything for me! >____< Oh well guess you can't have everything.

**BertRoot** · 23rd April 2005

Surely you can use old Ghost which ghosts the lot IIRC and doesn't require a drive witha preistalled OS. Have a root on the newsgroups for an older version. If Ghost has stopped being able to do this then what is the point of it??? You may as well use Nero Backup or just xcopy.

**Pegasus** · 23rd April 2005

Originally Posted by CueballKrill

I have been told Norton Ghost 9 is the one to go for. What would you guys recommend?

Ghost 9 isn't actually Ghost at all, it is Drive Image in disguise.
You want either Ghost 2003 (Home users), or Ghost 8 (Corporate users).

Originally Posted by neo55555

But even if your system fecks up again, you will still need a working OS to restore it from your CD-R/DVD-R

No you don't.

**marcode** · 23rd April 2005

ye it gives you the option to create a boot disk. i think it just boots with the dos version and installs from there.

**-NEO-** · 23rd April 2005

Yup! Do'h, Do'h, Do'h -

Sorry guys, thinking of an other backup util!

Nortan ghost is self booting!

If you have seen those OTHER windows on P2P networks such as windows FD, Delux and other non M$ versions. These where created using Nortan Ghost! You just backup your system, it goes straight onto a DVD and you go from there!

Like i said, Nortan Ghost has to be the best for backing-up your entire system!

**Thrush** · 23rd April 2005

Ok thanks guys. So any version except 9 is the one for me... yea?

**BertRoot** · 23rd April 2005

Originally Posted by CueballKrill

Ok thanks guys. So any version except 9 is the one for me... yea?

Aye. The older versions are tiny and would take no time to download mate.

**Thrush** · 23rd April 2005

thanks!

**urbsy** · 23rd April 2005

I use norton ghost 2003, it rocks!

I tried ghost 9 and couldn't get to grips with it tbh.

urbsy

**gav_b_uk** · 23rd April 2005

Even nicer if you have an older hard drive around that you can stick in as a spare to save the ghost image on to....restores are painless then and pretty quick too....Ghost is excellent...use it to maintain 600+ computers and it makes system rebuilds simple....just keep a central set of syspreped master images!

**Thrush** · 23rd April 2005

hummmm maybe i do! I have an old xbox hdd laying around gathering dust maybe i can use that ^______^

**Thrush** · 23rd April 2005

Need a bit more help guys.

Got Norton 2003 and everything works until its disk writing time, In dos it doesn't want to know. I put the dvd into my dvd-r writer and it still asks for a disk?? So I go back into windows to have a look at the help file and I read this.
---------------------------------------------------------
Not all CD-R/RW/DVD drives are supported by Norton Ghost. If your drive is
unsupported, you can create an image file and then write it to CD/DVD using
third-party software.
If your drive is unsupported, and the image file is too large to fit onto one disk,
you can still save the image file to CD/DVD.
There are two methods of saving an image file to an unsupported CD-R/RW/

DVD drive:
■ Splitting the image file while creating it
■ Splitting the image file after it has been created
The image file is initially saved to another partition or hard disk and then copied
to a CD-R/RW/DVD disk using your CD/DVD recording software.
---------------------------------------------------------

I had a look in my bios just to check where my dvd writer is and the bios sees it as the Primary secondary drive..... I have a cdrom/dvd and cdrw on one ide and the dvd writer on the other.

I guess I will need to make a partition on my current hard drive, but how do I do that without having to format the lot???

Cheers

Cue

**gav_b_uk** · 23rd April 2005

To partition your current drive you could use 'partition magic'...there's also other utilities out there, but dont knwo the names off the top of my head....

What DVD writer are you using???? Does norton allow you to do it to the CDRW instead??? It could be that norton is defaulting to your CDRW...try disabling that in the BIOS and just allow you DVDRW to be available....

**danthescan** · 24th April 2005

Well you said it yourself ,you have a spare hard drive lying around, so slave it in backup the ghost image to there and format the main drive and create all the partitions you want ,then restore the image to c and bobs your auntie.

you can then copy the image to a partition, and still have it on a spare drive in case your actual hard drive feks up. you should also be able to burn the image to a DVD.