Partition Magic

[Guest]

i have norton ghost and parition magic and want to create my own recovery
partition ..is this possible?
and if it is , when i ask Ghost to restore the hidden partition back to the
user partition , will it delete all information on the user partiton ? , so
say i had a virus on the user partition , by running ghost and restoring the
hidden Partition would this delete the virus off the user partiton?.

 

[R. McCarty]

Yes, it is possible.

Restoration cannot be done to an existing partition - must be free or
Unallocated space. (Delete existing partition).

Yes that would be the result. Restoration for virus is a little extreme
but would accomplish getting rid of it.

While that process would be effective. You would also want to burn
the image set to optical media and store off the PC as an emergency
backup in case the entire drive goes bad.

 

[Guest]

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Many Thanks .

Yes, it is possible.

Restoration cannot be done to an existing partition - must be free or
Unallocated space. (Delete existing partition).

Yes that would be the result. Restoration for virus is a little extreme
but would accomplish getting rid of it.

While that process would be effective. You would also want to burn
the image set to optical media and store off the PC as an emergency
backup in case the entire drive goes bad.

how wud i delete exsisting partition , cudnt i jus enter the hidden
partition via partition magic and select this partition > restore to user
partition?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

i have norton ghost and parition magic and want to create my own
recovery partition ..is this possible?

Possible, but not advisable, in my view.

Presumably you want to use this as a backup partition. I don't recommend
backup to a second non-removable hard drive because it leaves you
susceptible to simultaneous loss of the original and backup to many of the
most common dangers: severe power glitches, nearby lightning strikes, virus
attacks, even theft of the computer.



A sceond partition on your only drive is even a poorer choice for backup,
because to all of the other vulnerabilities above, you have to add the
chances of a hard drive crash.



In my view, secure backup needs to be on removable media, and not kept in
the computer. For really secure backup (needed, for example, if the life of
your business depends on your data) you should have multiple generations of
backup, and at least one of those generations should be stored off-site.



My computer isn't used for business, but my personal backup scheme uses two
identical removable hard drives, I alternate between the two, and use Drive
Image to make a complete copy of the primary drive.