Re: Norton Ghost question

From: KevinK (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:42:37 -0700

The partition holding the backup must be FAT so you can
read it when restoring.

Base partition can still be NTFS.

I do exactly that, although I clone the backup to a
network drive. Has some issue's if I need to restore,
but it works.

I'll agree with the second HD also, look for something
cheap. Probably 50 bucks will get you a reasonably sized
drive. and eliminates the issue if the primary crashes.

>-----Original Message-----
>As Harry said you can image your XP partition to another
partition but like
>you mentioned it's useless if the drive fails. I would
recommend a 2nd hard
>drive. Disks are really cheap, many under $.50 a gb on
sale, and then you
>could image all your partitions and be protected in case
of a disk failure.
>
>"Cooter" <cooter@msn.com> wrote in message
>news:z50Xc.1338$LH6.136950@twister.southeast.rr.com...
>I've almost finished installing XP on a new computer
with 4 logical drives.
>Can I create a Ghost image capable of restoring my
system on one of the
>logical drives (not the system drive)? I know this is
useless if the hard
>drive fails, but I'm thinking more about XP failures.
>
>
>
>.
>

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