Ghost 5.1c, need help.....

[Tom Elias]

I recently found ghost 5.1c on a download site. I wanted to copy my whole hd to a cd-r. Can I copy whatever I choose back onto the hd after I reformat my hd? or do I have to copy all I originally had? programs like msoffice 97: will they work if I copy them back after the reformat?

[BBA]

GHost is a partition copying software, the image it makes can be put on any drive of equal or larger size, sometimes even smaller too. After the ghost, all programs will work as if they had been there all along.

There is one real benefit for using GHOST, it speeds the system up after you place a image on a drive!

It does this by virtue of it's compression scheme. I will explain:

With an existing windows installation, disk space is used as needed, from one edge to the other on the disk. Windows will end up with a fragmented set of registry files and swap file, since it won't rearrange the data on the drive to add info to the registry just because you load more software, so bits and peices of registry data end up all over the drive which is hell for access times to load programs and retrieve files. The same occurs to the page file/swap file.

Ghost software rearranges the registry data files all into one contigous section when the image compression takes place when you make the image. The same for the page file/swap file happens also. The result is that when you dump the image to a drive, you have an optimized system. It is better optimization than any other utility out there (even diskeeper only optimizes the swap file, which keeps changing anyway if it is not set "static").


The biggest detractor with using GHOST is it does not work with FAT32!

It also must be run from a different physical drive than the one you are making the image of.

BBA

[This message has been edited by BBA (edited 06-29-99).]

[mac]

Tom you mean you found a trial version for downloading or a version to buy.