Re: Questions about imaging my C:\ drive. a little worried...


"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Laurence Payne" wrote ...
>> Ranpha wrote:
>>> I'm doing a relatively minor [but needed] upgrade by replacing my
>>>c:\ drive with a new harddisk [SATA with 16MB cache]. I have some
>>>time, as Im not in the middle of a session.
>>> Does it back up everything including registry? I have two USB
>>>drives, one for sessions and one for VSTi's, and I want to be sure
>>>that I'll have the "same" computer I had before. I've done some
>>>reading about Norton Ghost, but Im still left wondering if it will
>>>suit my needs.
>>
>> Ghost is the tool that does this job. Though you might consider
>> taking the opportunity for a brand-new clean Windows/programs
>> installation. Your old drive can stay in the box until you're sure
>> everything necessary has been saved.
>
> Excellent advice. Do take advantage of the situation to clean up your
> computer. The behefits likely extend
> beyond what you think they are.

I'll second that. Make a Ghost image of your drive with the intention of
being able to restore from it if all else fails First, download your NIC
drivers to a thumb drive or CD-R so that you have connectivity for further
downloads. You may also want the INF (aka chipset) files from the
manufacturer as an integrated NIC may not work without them.

I strongly encourage a disk wipe to kill boot sector trash, e.g.,
http://www.killdisk.com/ , and a clean install. After
Windows installation make sure you get the INF files from the manufacturer
installed. An important step many aren't aware of.

Reinstall Ghost and retrieve what you want directly from the image (no need
to dump it to a partition). You can of course retrieve files from the old
disk, but sometimes you forget you need a file until long after the old disk
is reformatted as a second drive.

If this fails, write your ghost image to the new drive.

Ghost can also image the old drive to the new, but as Richard said, "The
benefits likely extend beyond what you think they are."



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