David, I can offer this advice. I use Powerquest drive image because it is easier to understand than ghost was. OF course at the time Ghost was only up to version 3?, I think that is right and it was DOS based. I went with Drive Image because you could start it in windows and then reboot to dos. The menus in Dos were very easy too understand since they looked like a windows interface. Ghost was a little intimidating to me, of course I have not seen any recent versions run. I will have to default to a regular user of Norton Ghost to expound on the menu options and appearances. Derek Buchanan On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:52:54 -0500 rdavidl <[log in to unmask]> writes: > Hello, > > I'm looking for a way to be able copy the contents of my HD to CD-RW > in a > way that I can use that CD to reload everything from scratch, in one > shot. > Is that what's called 'ghosting'? I have a ThinkPad with Win 2K. Can > someone > walk me through the steps I would need to take in order to reformat > the HD > and then reload my OS and other Apps, not using the Recovery Disk > that came > with the computer, but using the ghosted image CD instead? I've seen > Norton's Ghost and Powerquest's Drive Image mentioned here - is this > the > software I would need? Lately I've seen Ghost spoken about much more > than > Drive Image - does that mean that Ghost is considered better? > > TIA, > David Landau > > Visit our website regularly for FAQs, > articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more > http://freepctech.com ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com