Advice needed backing up Dell Inspiron 6000

Hi Everyone,

I recently took delivery of a Dell Inspiron 6000 with 60GB HDD. I notice
that its the first laptop I have had which doesn't come with full system
restore CD/DVD. I am now contemplating getting Ghost backup installed so
that I can make a full backup of the system before I start using it further.
I really like the idea of a backup, but it seems Dell arn't so keen. Shame
on them.

If this hard drive failed for any reason I would lose the whole operating
system, so it important that I should do something to make sure I can get
out of a messy situation, should anything nasty happen. My questions are:

Does the Dell Inspiron ship with and IDE hard disc, as opposed to SATA?
Is there any reason I should not attempt to use Ghost backup?
Is there any reason why I cannot use the internal DVDR to create a backup
directly to DVD?
Does Dell do anything strange regarding partitions etc, that might cause
problems with Ghost?

I'm itching to try out the Dell, but think its probably much wiser to make a
backup before anything goes wrong when installing new software etc.

ps. I'm already familiar with Ghost, but I was recently told of a complete
disaster when trying to backup a brand new Sony Vaio laptop, due to the
drive being a SATA, and the fact that it was weirdly partitioned. The
backup went complely wrong and the whole operating system, drivers and
everything else that it had was lost.

I dont want that to happen here if I can help it.

I would appreciate any advice on backing up this Inspiron 6000 if you have
experience dealing with it.

Thanks very much.... Tony





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