Ghost 2003 - restore

[Robert Riehl]

A few times a year I re-format my hard drive and do a fresh install of XP.
I was thinking that I could do a fresh install and then Ghost the drive.

Question: How would I restore the image? Let's say my computer crashes and
I need a new hard drive. I install the hard drive and then what? Do I have
first install windows to install Ghost and then do the restore? Is there
someway to do a restore straight from a CD or DVD?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Rod Speed]

A few times a year I re-format my hard drive and do a fresh install of XP.

Why ?

I was thinking that I could do a fresh install and then Ghost the drive.

Yes, but you'll lose any changes made since the image was
made. Everything from email to favourites to reconfig stuff.

Question: How would I restore the image? Let's say
my computer crashes and I need a new hard drive.
I install the hard drive and then what?

If you ghost to CDRs or DVDs you just boot the first
CDR or DVD and tell it to restore to the new drive.

Do I have first install windows to
install Ghost and then do the restore?
Nope.

Is there someway to do a restore straight from a CD or DVD?

Yep, just boot it.

 

[J. Clarke]

A few times a year I re-format my hard drive and do a fresh install of
XP. I was thinking that I could do a fresh install and then Ghost the
drive.

Question: How would I restore the image? Let's say my computer crashes
and
I need a new hard drive. I install the hard drive and then what? Do I
have
first install windows to install Ghost and then do the restore? Is there
someway to do a restore straight from a CD or DVD?

Thanks for your help.

What do you expect to gain by doing this? After you have restored the image
your system will be back in the same state it was in before you formatted.

If you need to reinstall XP several times a year then you need to figure out
what's busted on your system and fix it.

 

[wlloo]

What do you expect to gain by doing this?

Obviously saving an image of the clean install so that clean
install can be restored instead of installing XP again.

After you have restored the image your system will be
back in the same state it was in before you formatted.

Not if the image file was created just after the clean install.

 

[Robert Riehl]

XP.

Why ?

I install and uninstall a lot of software, so I like to give my pc a
cleaning every now and then.


<SNIP>

 

[Rod Speed]

I install and uninstall a lot of software, so I like
to give my pc a cleaning every now and then.

Its quite a bit of work to move your emails, favourites
and config changes to the new clean install tho.

I personally do that testing stuff on a separate test PC
and just restore the ghost image after the test is complete.

That could be done on a single PC with a separate XP install
on its own partition which you install the stuff you are testing
separately to the ongoing XP install you use for everything else.
Just use a decent boot manager to select which one to boot.
Still image the clean install and then just restore that to the
test partition and then you dont care about the emails etc
which are on the normal XP partition.