I can't seem to find the origonal discs for many software applications
and I need to throw my current drive away (its starting to give me
problems. Will Ghost allow me to make a useable copy? If not do you
have any ideas?
Yes, and it's one of my all-time favorite apps that I've become dependent on
over the years. My backup strategy is heavily dependent on rotating six
HD's in mobil racks, cloning C: once per week. All my old, working HD's I
normally would give away or store in a drawer are now being used as clones.
If your C: drive, or any other drive that you clone, goes south you can
simply restore it using the clone, and in a very short time you can be up
and running again.
You can probably find an OEM copy of Ghost on Ebay for very little money,
and it'd be money well spent in the long run. Make sure you get 2003 or
later and after installing it do a Liveupdate, as there have been many
patches to 2003, like to make it compatible with SATA drives.
