Re: ghost file

Jim <chief_jim@xxxxxx> wrote:
: SLLD wrote:
: > My laptop come with 3 disk that were a backup or restore the computer.
: > Trouble is it wipes everthing. I would like to be able to extract the files
: > so I can use them without wiping the disk. Is there such a program?
: > The files are image.gho
: > tnx
: > SLLD
: >
: >
: Another option is to partition your drive. Let Windows be on "C" and
: install all programs to "D". This way you can wipe out Windows without
: losing your data. However Windows won't know about those files until
: you reinstall the applications to the same directory previously used in "D".

Well, installing your programs to "D" doesn't help you if you
re-install Windows, because you will need to re-install all the
programs anyway. Windows isn't good at finding previously installed
programs.

You could put your Desktop and My Documents folders in another
partition. Then again, if you ever need to re-install, you can
archive those folder to a DVD or external hard drive anyway and just
re-install Windows and then re-copy your archived data back to the C:
drive.

: Continuing another step establish a data folder within the application
: folders on "D". Then when doing your backups finding the data files to
: be backed up will be easy.

That's what the My Documents folder is for, although some software
still doesn't use it. Otherwise, it's very easy simply to backup My
Documents and Desktop if you use it to store files.

Andrew
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