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Guess many of you are kindoff bored or at least annoyed when it comes to reinstalling your OS either because it starts to give up errors, either because you bought a new HDD. The following post also applies if you work in a company where all the computers are the same (eg. same brand and model). It will save you lots of time if you plan to install an OS on several computers.

So what tool should we use. Well I don’t know if you know about Norton Ghost or if you worked with it but this little programm does the trick. It’s simple and intuitive to use.

Ok let’s get started on diferent situations:

If you want to reinstall your sistem in a minutes instead of long hours this is the right way to do it. What you need for this is: your HDD, a backup HDD (about 4-6 GB will do), a Norton Ghost BootDisk. Start fresh with your HDD clean and install the OS you want. Install the drivers and applications that you know you’re allwayse using (not games or other crap). When you are satisfied with your sistem configuration reboot and boot from the Norton Ghost Disk.

• Select Disk to Image from the menu.
• Select source disk the disk with the OS
• Select destination disk the backup disk
• Select High Compression

This will make an image of your HDD. Put is somewhere safe or burn it on a bootable DVD. Next time you want to reinstall your OS just boot from the Norton Ghost BootDisk and select Image to Disk. In about 10-15 minutes (depending on your system configuration) you’ll have your computer fresh. This is also usefull if you have a great amount of computers with the same hardware (brand) and you need to install them fast. Just install one, make an image from it and the use that image on the other computers.

Let’s say now you just bought a new HDD for your computer that will replace your old HDD. And you don’t want to loose all that time with reinstaling your OS and reconfiguring and then copying all your files to the new HDD. Norton Ghost comes in handy this time too. Just mount your old and new HDD and the boot the Norton Ghost Disk. From the menu select Disk to Disk, source your old HDD and destination your new HDD. It will take you about half an hour to do the transfer not half a day .

There are many other uses to Norton Ghost but so far this are the most relevant ones. Have phun.

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