Ghosting

Okay, the day you knew would come. Your computer will not start, or you got a virus, whatever the reason, you find its time to restore that image you made of your HD. When you restore an image to a HD or partition, all the current data is wiped off of that HD. That means that if you spent 6 hours typing, and saved that file on the partition your planning to restore, it will be deleted. If it's the OS partition your restoring, all the applications you installed since the image was made, will need to be reinstalled. Read my tweaking back up, to get tips on how to maximize your back up methods using Ghost.

If you have any data on the partition you can use a DOS boot disk to copy the data from the partition to another HD. This is if the drive still physically works. If the HD as physically failed you will first need to replace it. And if you stored the image on that HD, in a different partition, then you cannot restore. This is why you should back up you very important stuff to removable media. If you stored the image on another HD or on removable media, then you can get back in just minutes, once you replace the HD. Usually HD's do not physically fail. Most likely you will want to restore cause of an OS problem or software problem. A lot of the time, a user will delete an important file or a bad program will cause the OS to fail. And if you can't figure out how to get back, simply restoring an image my be the solution.

Okay, I know that restoring an image will wipe the partition, so how do I do it?