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[iGuest]

no way would I ever use or recommend your idea - always backup to external.. What if your HD dies???

then your backup partition is dead also.. Then all your data is gone for good 

-reply by greg

[iGuest]

Norton GhostNorton Ghost Tutorial

I thought I was going to use this program to back up,which I did to an external USB hard drive; I then turn the drive off and now it seems the program was damaged, I can't repair nor uninstall it through Control panel, I can't use Symantec program to remove it because it's NG 15; my back up USB hard drive now is not recognized when I connect it to the computer.

I need some help her bad because anytime I turn on the computer, it acts up funny, there were many black windows pop-up and go away throughout the booting process.

Any help/suggestion is very much appreciated.

I'm using Windows XP Pro SP3 by the way if it helps.

[iGuest]

If I use Ghost to copy my system to a hard drive that has a system on it, do I need to format that hard drive before ghosting? Or does the program format before copying? Or does it matter if I ghost over what is on the destination hard drive?

-question by Jakksun

[iGuest]

Always use the DOS ghost app to do the complete backup. That boots of cd/usb/floppy and clones the whole partition or drive.

Don't rely on the win32 version as it may not be available when you need to restore.

I have a 2GB usb stick dedicated to thinking it's a 1.44mb ghost floppy disk image for just this purpose.