New Ghost User Question

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aRKay

I am new to XP Pro but have purchased Ghost 10 to back up my wife's Dell
D-600 Latitude. I was first advised not to actually in stall Ghost but
to run it from the CD and save the image file to an external hard drive.

This did not work as I could not figure out how to get the D-600 XP Pro
to boot or regisgter from the Ghost CD.

I have finally decided the best thing is to install and register Ghost
10 on the D-600 and save the image files to the laptop. Once saved can
they then be copied to an external drive for the next time the internal
drive dies?

Sorry if these sound like stupid questions but I want to do it correct

aRKay
 
aRKay said:
I am new to XP Pro but have purchased Ghost 10 to back up my wife's
Dell D-600 Latitude. I was first advised not to actually in stall
Ghost but to run it from the CD and save the image file to an
external hard drive.

This did not work as I could not figure out how to get the D-600 XP
Pro to boot or regisgter from the Ghost CD.

I have finally decided the best thing is to install and register
Ghost 10 on the D-600 and save the image files to the laptop. Once
saved can they then be copied to an external drive for the next
time the internal drive dies?

Sorry if these sound like stupid questions but I want to do it
correct
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Not 'stupid' at all - just not the right newsgroup by many ways...

You should ask the product support for said product - not the Windows XP
Basics peer-to-peer newsgroup. ;-)
 
aRKay,

In order to use Ghost effectively, you're going to have to read the manual
that was included with it. Then, if you have questions, you should submit
them to Symantec.

You will want to install and register Ghost. You will want to store backups
on another partition or another hard drive. Another hard drive is better. The
manual explains your options and reasons. The explaination is too lenghty to
give here.

Ghost does work well though. I do a monthly full backup and daily
incremental backusp. It's all done automatically. It's gotten me out of
trouble several times.

Milt
 
You must learn how to boot from the GHOST CD, since sooner or later the PC
will fail to boot into XP and that is exactly the time you will want/need to
boot from the CD. Usually the trick is to change some BIOS settings. When
the PC starts up from cold, there should be a black screen with white
characters that says something like press DEL (or other) to enter setup. It
will only flash for a few seconds. Do it. Then you should be in the BIOS
setup menu. Select the "BOOT" tab and change the first boot device to be
CDROM (sometimes called ATAPI CDROM). Save and exit. Insert the bootable
CD and reboot.

Saving the GHOST image on an external hard drive is one good way to to a
fast backup.
 
Milt,

Thank you very much for the note. I would like to exchange some email
with you as I was advised this is not the correct forum for this
discussion. I installed and registered yesterday and it is doing its
thing to an external drive. I have read the user's guide but have some
questions regarding the options for full backup.

Dick

arkay(At)qsl.net
 
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