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In article <938877606snz129.os2.7@sunshine.tm>, Richard Ashton
<{R}@sunshine.tm> writes

<snip>

>One of the partitions is normally kept empty for nefarious and various
>purposes,

Nefarious? You - never, surely?  (Ducks and runs very fast!) :-)

> I then use GHOST to copy the newly installed partition to
>the empty one. 400Mb GHOSTed to the same drive on a slow Thinkpad drive
>takes 11 minutes with maximum compression and shrinks to around 180Mb,
>this copy is parked to my big machine and written to CDR.
>
>GHOST runs of a DOS boot disk so when a partition gets corrupted the
>CD .img file is copied back to the empty partition from the CD, I
>can't GHOST from a CD, I really must RTFM, and is then GHOSTed back
>over the corrupt partition, This partition can be DOS, VFAT, HPFS,
>NTFS GHOST doesn't care and I am back with a fresh system in about 9
>minutes.
>
>GHOST is available from the likes of Simply for around 15UKP, over the
>past few months I have done all my OS's except Linux which GHOST can't
>see on my machine. It is nice to feel safe when messing with the box.
>
Many thanks for this. Sounds like a good idea. Did a quick web search.
There's useful information at http://www.ghostsoft.com/ and it's
downloadable for 63USD. It is listed in Simply's current catalogue for
37.60 GBP inc. VAT, which is marginally cheaper, and I guess there's a
chance of getting a real manual. Maybe someone does it cheaper, but I
haven't looked yet.

Sounds like I need to send a note up the virtual chimney to Santa for
this (not too early to think of Christmas, I hope)! :-)

Regards,
-- 
Colin Price