On 5/28/02 10:14 AM, "Jane25345 at aol.com" <Jane25345 at aol.com> wrote:
> Hello All, > > Well, this Mac person has a PC problem. > > (Yes, I own one of those things. It's because I design web sites and need to > see what it looks like in both enviornments....but we ALL know which computer > I love the most!) > > Lately the PC has begun to run as slow as molasses. I've tried defragging it, > but that doesn't help. Several have said the time has come to back up my > info, clean off the hard drive and reinstall the programs and data. > > So I bought a firewire card, installed it and hooked up my CD burner, ready > to back stuff up. And, now I can't find my Windows 98 disk. > > (Has anyone ever heard of Microsoft building in a self-distruct mechanism, so > the programs just vaporize after awhile? Then, you'd have to buy a new > one...hummmmm.) > > Anyway, assuming I can find my disk, how does one back up a PC hard drive, > wipe it clean, and restore all the information so it works? > > I hope someone out there can help with this. Perhaps there are other closet > PC owners who might need this information. > > See you all at the meeting tonight. > > TIA, > Jane Blake > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be May 28. > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > Short answer... Ghost. Ghost is a utility that will make an identical copy of your hard drive to another volume. I don't know if it will work on multiple CDs, but I think so. The Ghost utility can be started from a boot disk and can run in DOS. I used Ghost several years back to image about 35 PCs for one of the Catholic schools in Louisville... Took me about six hours to do them all. Nice little program. Symantec owns it now. Should be available from CompUSA. -- Bryan C. Forrest Macintosh Specialist LifeNet Virginia Beach 1-800-TISSUE-1 The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be May 28. For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
