I have a Micron laptop with a 5g drive, W98 se and docking station (large
monitor, keyboard and mouse). I virtual office from home.
We were looking for a whole drive backup solution. My company bought a
15g hard drive, USB enclosure and a copy of DriveCopy. What we didn't
think of ahead of time was that USB is only supported under Windows. If
the whole drive goes away, there is no Windows operating system to
support it. We would have to re-install Windows before the backup copy
would be usable.

Does anyone have a solution to this?

Thanks, Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Rick Lindstrom
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 11:29 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Home backup recommendations?

>Since some of the machines I want to back up are laptops,
>the plan of adding a second hard drive to the machine and
>running ghost --- instant recovery by simply switching over
>to booting off the second drive --- doesn't seem practical.

Ghost runs from DOS. Boot your laptop (from a floppy) to your network,
run
Ghost from the floppy and Ghost an image of the machine to a network
drive.
An image is a discrete file that can be restored at a later time. The
restoration process is basically identical except that you ghost from the
image to disk.

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