Norton Ghost 9 question, last one I swear, if I ......

[Scottie]

I made an image of my C: drive where windows and SP2 are installed and put it on a DVD-R now if I format my C: drive can I use it to fully restore my Windows and SP2 if I boot with the Ghost 9 CD or will it only fix minor problems ?

Would this work ?

Thanks.

[Paul Simmel]

I made an image of my C: drive where windows and SP2 are installed and put it on a DVD-R now if I format my C: drive can I use it to fully restore my Windows and SP2 if I boot with the Ghost 9 CD or will it only fix minor problems ?

Would this work ?

Thanks.

Yes if you have a bootable version, but no problems will be fixed. You will only end up restoring the exact image you just made (your computer as it is now.) Do you understand my point? Do I understand your point?

[Scottie]

I think I know what you mean I ment I made a good backup everything on my computer and it was working fine when I made the image.

I just wasn't sure and didn't think it could restore it to a formatted HD.

[Scottie]

would backing up a Hard Drive with no compression make it restore faster ?

[stiltman]

no, it can only write to the HDD so fast. using no compression can be faster for creating the image in some cases, but not all.

Be sure to verify your image after it is created

[vhelp]

If the compression algorithym is good, than in theory, it should be
faster to restore from an image that incorporated the compression
option, to your disk.

Theory is here ... ...

Given a 100MB filesize to archive and then restore. The compression
of this is down to 20MB now..

* A 100MB size file is read, and writen 100MB - time this..

* A 20MB is read, and uncompressed and writen as 100MB to disk - time this..

It will depend on the Algorithem (I'd assume) and also, the machanics of
the memory buffers used to reading data/contents from the disk/cd.

I prefere the compressed, because there are many smaller files, and they
can be compressed smaller and really quickly. Plus the space saving to
the process.

I've had nothing but trouble trying to Ghost my hd to a DVD RW disk (or
any DVD disk for that matter) My older Ghost worked flawlessly when it
was back in the ver 7.x days and I was using CD/R/RW's at the time. I
also had to use a boot disk (A drive) but that was ok. My restore time
back then, was about 5 minutes. I did this for a while then, when I first
came home from work, and made coffee or something. It became a routine
at the time. Now, I haven't ben doing the same because I have problems,
due to many system changes in my setup of things.
.
I still am not able to get Ghost working w/ DVD disk (any type) It just
bombs out (dos mode) or at the end, it fails to fianlize the disk,
even when theirs plenty of space (you can see the image on the disk
when you look at the "burn" groves)
.
Course, mine OS is win98 but that makes no difference. This was all after
I went out and bought Ghost 2003 that all this trouble started. And I
have sinse, ben having trouble. But lately, I've ben too busy and lazy
to bother with it

Anyways.

I would use the Compression option in your Image. Don't worry if it takes
long to do. The writing always does. But the reading, is another story.
It will aways be faster. And, the compression (factor in your CPU speed)
will only help to some degree.

-vhelp

[stiltman]

I had problems with DVDs too. I was using DVD-RWs and it didn't seem to verify half the time. I switched to +RWs and it works all the time now....Well I should say it did work all the time. I now backup to a HDD in a firewire enclosure

[Scottie]

I did a backup image to a DVD-R no troubles and also to my 2nd portition on my HD with no troubles.

No I Can't wait till I have to restore SP2 is a pain and long time to install besides that I didn't mind reistalling everything.