Ghost and backup

Nem2k · 10 Jan 2007 at 08:05

whats the purpose of norton ghost? how is it any difference from just backing up your files with another hard drive?

Nem2k · 10 Jan 2007 at 10:06

oh i see, sounds like ghost is quite useful, especially considering i reformat quite often

so whats the best plan of attack? employ both ghosting and backing up? just use ghost and create an image of everything once a week so you have all files backed up as an image?

i wont be using the corporate version, but i am wondering about the version numbers of ghost. i think theres 2003, 9 and 10. 10 obviously being the latest but i read that 2003 is the best? not sure how that works

Nem2k · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:38

hm yes that makes sense

would you recommend i use ghost 2003 or ghost 10?

Nem2k · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:51

are there any major differences between 2003 and v10? i heard you can use 2003 even if windows doesnt boot therefore you can recover if windows becomes corrupted?

Nem2k · 11 Jan 2007 at 01:19

hmm looks like V10 it is then

been wondering about this for a while. say i create an image of that core system , then i use the computer for a few months, install stuff on it and i want to reformat.

but before doing that reformat i want to create different sized partitions to the ones that were imaged....how would that work? if at all?