I even run Windows XP on a FAT-32 HD, so I can have DOS control over every file on my HD. I’ve even included several batch files, to clean out various JUNK files on the HD before Ghost actually runs. I then set up a dos menu to give me several options in the way I run Ghost. My Ghost boot floppy was formatted on a windows ME PC, which is a better DOS than windows 98. Ghost Knows, that I’m booting from a floppy disk and it offers to put itself on the DVD, thus making it boot up exactly like the floppy did. Then once every two weeks I do a Partition to Image with HIGH compression, to a DVD. I back up my C: drive at least once every week, using the Partition to Image backup in FAST compression mode, to a second (storage) hard drive. It was written to be a HD backup program, not a FILE backup program. Ghost will do a partition backup or a disk backup, either disk to disk or disk to Image, but will not do an incremental backup. That’s the only way you can run Ghost 2003 (to my knowledge) and get it to put itself on a Ghost backup CD or DVD, thus making it bootable. The original Ghost, even the 2003 version was written to be run from a bootable floppy disk. (Before Symantec bought it and turned it into “Norton’s Ghost”). I’m some what of a Ghost guru, since I’m a PC professional and I’ve been using Ghost since it was first released by its originating company in New Zealand in ~ 1997.
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