Re: Need To Do Repeated Clean Installs

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From: Robert Moir (bofh_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:27:20 +0100

David Kaufmann wrote:
> Robert,
>
> Thank you for your reply. (If I was so smart, I wouldn't be asking for
> suggestions!)
>
> If Ghost replaces everything that is present on the C: drive with the
> Ghost image, that would solve one of my problems. If I create a
> folder, C:\Dave, and then restore my old Ghost image that doesn't have
> C:\Dave, would C:\Dave still be present? (Maybe I should ask this on a
> newsgroup that deals with Ghost.)

The folder would go. Creating a backup image of a whole partition and then
restoring that image puts the partition back to how it was at the time the
image was taken.

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