[SEL] O.T. Computer Help - Not Down

[Robert L. Holtzer]

I haven't used Ghost for quite a while.  I used it to completely transfer 
the contents of a hard drive to another hard drive -- for upgrading to a 
bigger/faster hard drive.  The new hard drive then physically replaced the 
old one.  As I recall there were a number of options the program could 
carry out.

Frankly I'd try hooking up the external hard drive and have Windows 
Explorer check out its contents.  I've copied the boot drive to another 
internal hard drive and there has been no evident conflict, ie, the system 
doesn't try to boot from the copy since BIOS controls the initial boot 
device.  Will be interested in other suggestions you get!   Best wishes.

Bob Holtzer

At 05:47 PM 7/17/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Ok you computer guru's I need your help again. I am not completely stupid,
>almost but not quite there yet. I had enough sense about six months ago when
>I was having computer trouble before to go out and buy a 60 gig external
>hard drive and using Norton Ghost a friend of mine came over and did a
>complete backup of my hard drive. He said the option he selected was such
>that I cannot just hook up the hard drive to my computer and pick and choose
>the files I want, I have to completely download everything and this is all
>of the applications. He also said I would have to use Norton Ghost just to
>download the files again.
>
>Is there anyway I can hook up the external hard drive and see all of my
>files and then download just the ones I want or is what he said true, I can
>only do a complete backup onto my computer of the information that is on the
>external harddrive. Surely there is a way to see these files and to pull off
>what I want.
>
>So there it is gang, the challenge for all of the computer guru's, and I am
>confident that someone can tell me how to do this. By the way I now have
>Norton Internet Security on my computer which does not include
>Ghost.....does this make the challenge harder?
>
>I will appreciate any and all help you folks can give me and just maybe I
>might learn how to use this thing before I buy the farm as we say here in
>the South.
>
>Paul
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