| Peter Wilkins 2004-12-22, 2:45 am |
| On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:54:20 -0600, "dykesc" <cupstidd@bellsouth.net>
wrote :
>I am using Ghost 2003 to store a backup image of my main HDD on an =
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>USB HDD. If my main HDD fails and I replace it with another (possibly a=20
>different brand), will I be able to restore the backup image to the new =
HDD?=20
>Thanks.=20
>
Yes. Provided you can boot your computer with USB drivers so it can
see the .gho/.ghs files on the external HDD, and run the DOS version
of Ghost. And provided the new HDD is big enough to hold the restored
image!
You need to create a disaster recovery boot disk with the necessary
drivers in it. You can do it from within Ghost under the Ghost
utilities. It puts PCDOS in a virtual partition. Then if the HDD
fails, you boot into PCDOS from the disaster recovery boot disk, it
opens DOS Ghost, you select the required image to restore, where to
restore it, and away you go. You can use MSDOS if you prefer but have
to provide it on floppy to create the necessary recovery boot disk.
I just overwrote my boot HDD last night - nothing wrong with it but
I'd done something that stopped particular pages from loading and
couldn't fix it - so just restored yesterdays backup image from the
other HDD. Worked like a charm, but it's pretty slow - took about an
hour to restore 25GB.
BTW, if you don't have a floppy so you can't create a recovery boot
disk, you can create a bootable CD/DVD instead.
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Regards,
Peter Wilkins
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