Hi, everyone:

I need some advice from you experienced folks.

A few years ago my son bought me Norton Ghost 2000 as a Christmas gift. I BEGAN using it regularly. One day my OS hiccupped for some unknown reason and the computer refused to boot. I reloaded everything from the latest Ghost backup and it worked fine. A couple of years later, the OS hiccupped again (cause unknown). When I WENT to reload my latest backup, Ghost couldn’t read from the fourth CD in the backup set. I went to a previous backup, and again it could not read from one of the diskettes in each backup. So, off to the XP Pro installation disks and a fresh installation with lots of stuff lost.

I have a 20 GB internal disk, and my granddaughter gave me a 160 GB eternal hard drive for last Christmas. The stuff I store on it has not great value.

The main problem with my Ghost 2000 is that it will only write an image file to a floppy or CD. It seems like Ghost doesn’t see the external drive, maybe because it’s USB connected. I asked Norton if the newer versions of Ghost would write the image to the external drive, but I never got an answer.

Could some of you who are more experienced than I am help me with these questions?

1) Am I thinking logically to want to backup to the external hard drive?

2) Do the newer versions of Norton Ghost write an Image Copy to another hard drive?

3) Can you recommend different software that is comparable in price? (Maybe I’ll drop a Christmas hint.)

4) If so, will the software boot up into DOS for backing/reloading in case the OS screws up and I can’t boot up?

Sorry this was so long. I APPRECIATE any help.

TNX:RGDS:EARL

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Any CHANCE to SWITCH reply #3, and #4?....LOLYour wish was my command, fellas...

Obstruction deleted... Cool .....LOLThats some great expert advice you guys gave there. Now what was the question again?To make a back up of the hard drive - Acronis True Image.