Using Norton Ghost 9 To Clone My C:\ Drive

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by bobcox

Jim, I used a rocket raid card from newegg, for about two yrs, without a problem. cheap card but it worked for me. Bob

Thanks Bob,
I'm looking at a Roswell card from Newegg right now. It's an inexpensive card but seems to have everything I need. Opps, it's not bootable.

If you don't mind me asking, why did you stop using a raid card? Am I going in the wrong direction here?

Jim

[bobcox- with the Lord]

I use a small form factor Hp computer in my rack, with two hard drives.
a 80 gig for operating syst and programs, and a 750 gig for music, videos, and kma files,
and i always carry at least one laptop, for a backup.
i use to use the raid, with two 250 gig hard drives, but they became to small.
and at the time i did'nt want to spend the money for two 750 gig drives.
Jim, make sure your power supply will handle it. and with the raid, if a drive fails, your singer just keeps on singing, you won't even notice it.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Which card did you use Bob?

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by bobcox

I use a small form factor Hp computer in my rack, with two hard drives.
a 80 gig for operating syst and programs, and a 750 gig for music, videos, and kma files,
and i always carry at least one laptop, for a backup.
i use to use the raid, with two 250 gig hard drives, but they became to small.
and at the time i did'nt want to spend the money for two 750 gig drives.
Jim, make sure your power supply will handle it. and with the raid, if a drive fails, your singer just keeps on singing, you won't even notice it.

Hey Bob,
I'm using two 250 seagate drives. This is plenty of room for my 10,600+ KMA files (I don't use videos) so I should be good. If I need more space I can jump to two 300mb drive for about $200 right now.

My drives are guaranteed for five years. they are now four years old. The raid setup gives me the confidence that if my C:\drive fails, I can get through the show without stopping and address the problem the next day. I just checked both of them with the Seagate Disc Wizard for Windows and they are running well but we never know when things might change.

The next thing I plan on doing is to clone my C:\ drive to a new 300mb drive and keep it as a backup outside of the machine. I've been cloning my C:\ srive to an external drive as an extra backup but now realize that it is not bootable. I will check into the article that George brought to my attention on this point. If this works I can put my 300mb drive in my studio computer.

Thanks Again for all of your help!

Jim