My main problem was the bootable floppy produced by Ghost could not find some needed Adaptec drivers for the CD-burner.

Well to make a long story short, I have spent a week trying to follow videos, reading through Ghost documentation and digging through smarter than I am people’s blogs and forums, but still I could not make the Ghost installed in Windows XP produce a bootable set of backup Cds of my C-partition. I installed it and after watching several videos was so happy that now a bootable backup will be possible. This let’s me experiment with my machine’s C-partition and if I screw it up, then quickly restore it to its nice and shiny pre-screw-up condition.Įventually came along Norton Ghost 2003, available as free download for a month. Well, I have tried several backup programs which came along with my PC’s, laptops or OEM manufactured CD/DVD burners, such as Nero or Sonic, but I could not figure out how to create bootable set of CDs so I could just stick them one by one into my dead machine and get it up and running to the snapshot stop point in half an hour.

I would have to spend a day or two, or sometimes three, to install the OS – in my case Windows XP, get the internet up and running, get all the drivers and tune up my C-partition to a perfect working condition. So I wanted to find a relatively easy solution to make a snapshot of the perfectly working C-partition of my laptop and be able to restore it quickly in case of disaster, which I normally cause when trying new hardware or new version of drivers on my PC hardware. I hope you have never lost your machine’s bootable and carefully tuned OS partition, often referred to as the C-partition, but I did, and couple of times.

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