RE: Windows registry cleanup tools - PowerQuest Drive Image

["Marc" marc@xxxxxxxx]

Harry

Ghost 2003 has a utility called Norton Ghost Boot Utility.
Personally I tend to just use floppy disks to boot from.
Norton will set it up and also load up drivers for your USB ports allowing
access to the backup image.

As an aside, Norton also provide a Ghost Explorer, that allows you to open
and extract files (tho not add to) from a Ghost image.

Ghost (or Graphical Host Operating System Transfer) was developed in New
Zealand and brought out by Symantec a few years ago.

In its original format it was a pure DOS application (no GooUI front end on
it) and it seemed to work without any problems for me. Unfortunately things
like stupidly large hard disk drives did require some consideration, but all
in all it was a simple solid product.

Marc


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Harry Binswanger
Sent: Wednesday, 30 August 2006 5:03 p.m.
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Windows registry cleanup tools - PowerQuest Drive Image

Norman,

Thank you. Just to get this absolutely clear for myself . . .

Suppose I've installed Ghost 2003 and have used it to make an image on my
USB external drive of my laptop drive (C:). Then suppose the hard disk on
my laptop goes kaplooey. Could I then walk over to CompUSA, buy a new
laptop drive, physically swap it out for the broken one inside my laptop ,
and somehow boot the laptop through the USB from the external drive? How?
my BIOS does not allow booting from USBs? Hmmm, maybe I need to burn DRDOS
from Ghost onto a CD, so I could boot from that? Is that doable?

At any rate, if I can somehow boot the laptop using DRDOS, could I then
restore from the external drive's image and proceed as if nothing had
happened (or nothing since my last image-making)?

Worriedly,
Harry


> >my laptop's external drive is attached?
>
>Yes, Ghost natively runs DRDOS, as I recall. and you can also run it with
>MS-DOS if you use your own MS-DOS.
>
>It did recognize an external USB hard drive, and I saved Ghost images to
>the external drive.
>
>Norman
>
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Harry Binswanger
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