the hard drive......
Well, I'm in a middle of trouble shooting ghost. It will not recognize my usb hard drive. I called symantec and I waited on hold for almost an hour, I got thru to someone. That "someone" told me that there was a ghost department and that they all have gone home for the day (it was a little past five pm). He told me to go to
http://service.symantec.com and then go to the Q & A section to see if my answers were there and then call back on monday. So, I did. Apparantly, I have found that ghost does not support a USB hard drive. So, I will still call them to confirm this on Monday.
This is a major problem for me. My Hard disk in the puter is 30 gigs and the usb hard drive is 60 gigs. So in the meantime, I went to "my computer", drive "C", and "drag and dropped" copied everything over to the usb hard drive. I know I am not using compression but since I have twice the anount of storage space on the usb HD, it shouldnt matter (btw - I went to my USB HD after making the backup and I was running programs, like Sonar with no problems).
What do you think? What good is ghost if it won't recognize a USB or Firewire HD? Thats a huge oversight!
tcdave
PS - I have another idea. I need to see if I could make a copied "image" in ghost in drive C, then copy it to my usb hard drive. After I rebuild the puter, install the usb hard drive, and then transfer files. Hopefully, if ghost does a really good job at compression, that might work because I have about half of my HD (about 15 gigs) free of space.
Or I could do the backup the really hard way, one cd-r at a time thru ghost!!!