How to copy or "Ghost" a drive

[bobcox- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by bryant

Bob, Do you ghost evrycouple of months.

My question was: Because it asks to completely erase the
ghosting drive before you start (can't have anything on it), what exactly do you do the next ghost copy you make, say next month. Do you have to erase everything clean again, and repeat the same process.

Also, second question: It does ask and recommends that you make a bootable disk, but not sure why if the drive is ghosted correctly. Do you make that boot disk as well?

i said true image, but i use migrate easy 7.0
i dont make the bootable disc, and never had a problem.
lets say, drive one is my boot drive with all my programs and files.
and drive two is my backup drive.
i copy or ghost drive 1 to drive to completly.
i just let it erase drive i want to copy to.
then i use that in my computer till next time. about 3 months.
that way if you would have a drive fail you just install the other one and ghost it right away. for a backup. Bob