Re: best way to back up a hard drive



Hi Jim,

..........Will ghost upload to any harddrive I install as a replacement to the one going down?

Yes, use Ghosts clone option. It'll make an exact bootable copy of your hard drive. The clone can be used as your primary drive by proper placement of its jumper. It can also be used to make more copies of your info.

You can't put the clone in a different computer and expect it to boot though unless you're cloning Win 95/98 as they're not as computer specific OSes.

Or do I have to replace the bad drive with the exact same manufactor and
size drive as the ghost duplicated?

Nope, different sizes and manufacturers works just as well.

Look around on ebay and you can easily find Ghost 8 for about $10 that'll do all you're looking to have done.


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