Using Norton Ghost 9 To Clone My C:\ Drive

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Originally Posted by George

I may be missing something here, but I see no point in this at all. You would have to go in and connect the drive every time you changed the data on your main drive. If you didn't your back up drive would not be current, so what would be the purpose?

All it takes is a start up disk that you make with Norton, to boot the pc and clone the backup disc to the failed c:


An option that would permit you to boot to the back-up drive may be to use a bootable USB drive as the back-up drive. Here's some dope on that:

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1676

Dunno, as I have no personal experience with it, but it seems plausible.

Hey George,
I'm going to go with the raid set up. I see two major advantages to this:

1. The raid system will keep a mirrored copy my C:\ drive on the second drive. Any changes I make to the C:\ drive will be made to the second drive as well. I won't have to connect and disconnect the drives to add new data.

2. If my C:\ drive fails, the raid system will start using the second drive automaticaly. I won't have to open my computer and switch drives, I should be able to just keep running my show, replaceing the bad drive when I got home.

I don't have the time to research the bootable USB drive so I don't know how much trouble it would be but if it works, it would be better than the backup system I have now which turned out to be none. Thanks for posting this info, it may help somebody else.

Jim