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

[Paul Maples]

Thanks so much Jeff for the advice and offer of help.

Jeff I have a friend who has three laptops, he only uses one. He is out of
town right now but when he gets back I am going to see if he will loan me
one of them and if I can get a copy of Ghost I would install the backup that
is on my 60 gig external drive to his laptop and once I get it on his laptop
I would then copy all of the files to a CD and then I could put the CD in my
laptop and pick and choose the files I wanted on my current hard drive.

This will leave me with an empty 60 gig external hard drive, it looks like I
could take this empty 60 gig hard drive and hook it up once a week and just
download all of my files and folders which I to keep in "My Documents" to
the hard drive. Would this work?

Can I use the CD you are talking about to extract Ghost from it so that I
can pull the data off of the 60 gig external hard drive and onto my friends
un-used laptop (assuming he will let me use it)?

If this will all work I would be indebted to you if you could give me a step
by step procedure to use so that I don't destroy the data. Once I get it
back I am through with Ghost forever, it is just too much trouble to use and
I regret ever being talked into using it.

Thanks Jeff

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Allen" <transteck at earthlink.net>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] O.T. Computer Help - Not Down


> 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