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I've just installed Norton Ghost after having a bit of a scare with my C drive. I have tried to copy the whole of that drive to an external in the event it goes down but keep getting an error message:

This operation cannot be performed while windows is running. You must complete this operation inside the recovery enviroment.

My understanding of this is you cannot copy your C drive yet I have been told you can. Is there another way? I'm just a bit worried my drive is going to pack up before I get chance to copy it.
 
With ghost you need to create a boot disk (Ghost boot wizzard) - boot from this and then image your PC to the external drive.
 
No a boot disk to load a minimal operating system enviroment to allow the c drive to be copied.

Windows XP and Vista (most versions) have a built in back up system and I don't mean system restore.
 
snapzz said:
Would that be a "Recovery Disk"?
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There should be a 'Ghost boot wizzard' that was installed with ghost this allows you to create a boot cd/usb or floppy that contains a copy of ghost and dos.. which version of ghost are you using
 
Dogfish_magnet said:
There should be a 'Ghost boot wizzard' that was installed with ghost this allows you to create a boot cd/usb or floppy that contains a copy of ghost and dos.. which version of ghost are you using
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v14 but cant find a "Ghost boot wizzard" Just RTFM and no mention there.Have to admit I borrowed Ghost this from someone so never used it before.
 
As Dogfish says... you need to create yourself a boot disk! Once you have the boot disk... I recommend using a USB stick for this (but use one that is less than 2gig - it does weird things to sticks bigger than that... you can't always get all the space back due to the reformat performed... anyway shall not rant on, use a little on 64meg will be plenty big).

I have used Ghost a million times, so here is what you need to know - Ghost can take an "image" of your machine, this includes settings, installs, basically the lot, but you need to think about where you are putting this data - if your Hard drive has 300 Gigs worth of data, you are going to have to have a place to put all this data, i.e about a million CD's, 10000 DVD's or whatever.

My solution has been to get a extra HD and slap my images of my PC on there. I can elaborate on how to do this if you want to do it this way... the beauty of having an images is that you don't have to re-install things! If it breaks you slap an old image on an bosh it's back to how it was!

If it is only data your worried about I would recommend this - http://allwaysync.com/index.html - get an external HD or one that can attach to the network and that way you can have multiple PC's and laptops backing up to one location.
 
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