re-installing from backup

footman · 31 Mar 2006 at 07:25

Hi
I'm doing a new build this weekend and use Norton Ghost9 to create a backup image on a seperate ide HDD from which I can restore . Does anyone know if this also restores registry settings associated with the applications restored.

What Im really asking of course is do I have to manually restore from CD all my applications!

cheers

Laurence

crashuk · 31 Mar 2006 at 09:37

nope make sure you uninstall nortons av before you ghost it.

footman · 31 Mar 2006 at 11:21

sorry to appear thick but Im not quite clear what you mean by that.

(sorry didnt see the"AV" bit !!)

CoXeY · 31 Mar 2006 at 13:34

The image should take a snap shot of the entire drive / partition that you select. If this is the system partition then the registry and everything else will be backed up. Therefore, assuming all your applications where installed when the image was taken, restoring the image will also restore the registry and all your applications...

Dan.

footman · 31 Mar 2006 at 14:55

I can see that if I restored the entire drive then all settings would be restored, but in this case as its a clean install I will only be restoring selected folders.

CoXeY · 31 Mar 2006 at 18:07

Oh I see, in that case no the registry settings will not be restored.

I suppose you could restore the selected folders and then chose to restore the registry too, although this would work it kinda defeats the object of a nice fresh XP install.

Time to get out those CD's and Serial numbers then...

footman · 31 Mar 2006 at 19:24

CoXeY said:
Oh I see, in that case no the registry settings will not be restored.

I suppose you could restore the selected folders and then chose to restore the registry too, although this would work it kinda defeats the object of a nice fresh XP install.

Time to get out those CD's and Serial numbers then...

absolutely...cheers for the comments all.