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

[Jeff Allen]

Paul,

Norton Ghost makes a compressed image of your entire hard drive. The only
way to get the data back is using Ghost. I have a CD that has an image of a
laptop drive on it. The CD contains an executable and the ghost image. The
executable is Ghost and once opened it will allow you to restore a drive. If
you have a spare drive around that you don't mind trashing you could use it
to get to your data. Another option would be to move the two files from your
external drive to the drive on the computer you are using, and then run the
exe from there and install the backup on your external drive. This option
could trash your current drive if you don't do it right. Not for the timid
by any means. That's about the best I can do for you. I will tell you I am
not a fan of Ghost and don't use it. All of my files are in the My Documents
folder in their own subdirectories. I back them all up using an external DVD
burner. If I ever had a fatal crash my data is safe. Good luck.

Jeff
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Maples" <pmaples at anaxis.net>
To: "Stationary Engine List" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 4:47 PM
Subject: [SEL] O.T. Computer Help - Not Down


> 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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