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Re: Ghosting - attn Micro

By: micro in PCADVICE | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 07 Dec 12 4:05 AM | 600 view(s)
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Hi V-Golf!

Where do you save your images? Do you partition your hard drive and put them in there?

What I normally do, (and did not this last time) is to ghost the hard drive with the entire system onto another hard drive. This way, if the hard drive fails, I can just pop the other one in its place.

You will need to educate me a bit more on saving images.

I am all ears!

Thanks,

micro...

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Ghosting - attn Micro
By: Vgolfmaster in PCADVICE
Thu, 29 Nov 12 5:35 AM 		Msg. 01161 of 01181

Hey Micro,

If when you said you were ghosting, you meant Norton ghost, then you are already doing exactly what I was describing when discussing imaging in the folding forum. Saving an image as a backup file, Ghosting is just Symantecs coined term for the same thing!

Here's what I do, if you are interested. Any new machine I get, or after and OS upgrade, I install windows and get all the drivers up to date, then let windows updates do its thing until all updates are in place and current.

Then I image it, so I have a base image to revert back to that does not require windows updates etc like a fresh install.

Then I install all programs and customize/configure till my hearts content, then make another image with everything installed. Another fail back point before anything is done online, and any risk is assumed.

After that, I just make an image every 2-3 months, saving the last 3, then delete any older ones to save space!!

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