Greetings!
I usually format my drive and reinstall OS & other software at the end of each semester. This is very simple with my Dell Desktop, since I have Ghosted my OS partition to a back up hard drive. It only takes me about 15-20 minutes to reinstall OS and all 'primary' software.
I would like to do the same for my laptop, but I cannot Ghost it to my backup hard drive since the Norton Ghost works only in DOS and does not "see" my backup harddrive through my home network. (The Ghost software only sees the drive on my laptop.)
Eventually, I would like to clone the hard drive (for both the desktop and laptop) to a CDROM so that I can install everything by simply booting from the CDROM. (On, my only CD burner is on the desktop.)
Questions:
Which is the best solution?
(1) Buy an external hard drive for the laptop and Ghost to that hard drive.
Sub-question: I have seen both external hard drives and external hard drive cases (to hold a hard drive). Any opinions on which is best... features to look for?
(2) Buy Drive Image. As I understand it, if I clone the laptop hard drive, it (Drive Image) will create a new partition and place the cloned hard drive in the new partition. I could then copy that to the backup hard drive (on my desktop) via my home network.
More Questions:
(3) Has anybody come across a SIMPLE way of cloning the hard drive to CD ROM --multipe CD ROMs (My destop requires 3 CD ROMs)? Ghost can do it... in theory... but it's not the easiest thing in the world, particularly since the CD RW that I have is not one of the Ghost compatible CD RW drives.
Any suggestions, recommendations, etc. will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Pat
I usually format my drive and reinstall OS & other software at the end of each semester. This is very simple with my Dell Desktop, since I have Ghosted my OS partition to a back up hard drive. It only takes me about 15-20 minutes to reinstall OS and all 'primary' software.
I would like to do the same for my laptop, but I cannot Ghost it to my backup hard drive since the Norton Ghost works only in DOS and does not "see" my backup harddrive through my home network. (The Ghost software only sees the drive on my laptop.)
Eventually, I would like to clone the hard drive (for both the desktop and laptop) to a CDROM so that I can install everything by simply booting from the CDROM. (On, my only CD burner is on the desktop.)
Questions:
Which is the best solution?
(1) Buy an external hard drive for the laptop and Ghost to that hard drive.
Sub-question: I have seen both external hard drives and external hard drive cases (to hold a hard drive). Any opinions on which is best... features to look for?
(2) Buy Drive Image. As I understand it, if I clone the laptop hard drive, it (Drive Image) will create a new partition and place the cloned hard drive in the new partition. I could then copy that to the backup hard drive (on my desktop) via my home network.
More Questions:
(3) Has anybody come across a SIMPLE way of cloning the hard drive to CD ROM --multipe CD ROMs (My destop requires 3 CD ROMs)? Ghost can do it... in theory... but it's not the easiest thing in the world, particularly since the CD RW that I have is not one of the Ghost compatible CD RW drives.
Any suggestions, recommendations, etc. will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Pat
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