I do daily incremental ghosts of my small C: partition. Also to a second hard drive, but I mounted mine internally. Additionally, a monthly full image is put on alternate DVDs and one is kept off-premises.
I can restore the image and get back to where I was the previous evening, and I've done that once. On another occasion I had reason to suspect a trojan, so instead I formatted C:, installed WinXP clean, then just restored personal files from the image as I needed them. Obviously, to pull off this scheme you need to partition your C: drive small, like 10-15G. That's enough to hold all your Documents folder (if you don't cram junk videos/music in there), and many commonly used apps. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
