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I have not been on the forum for a while for several reasons.This summer has been a bussy time besides taking care of my family, playing on some festivals a.s.o. But the bigest problem has been my computer. It started to behave in strange ways (and I am sure it was not a virus) and finaly I had to "clean" it completely and start up again from zero.
Since I am not a spesialist on this I had great help from my son who was home in the summer hollyday.
No it is back to where I want it to be (well, close to) but I want to make sure it dont happen again if disater struck. So I bought the Nero Ghost 14,0 so I can make a "clone" of my computer on an external hard drive.

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I have Norton Ghost 10.0 - 14.0 can only be easier.

Install the programme to your internal hard drive by running the CD. It should auto-boot the install programme as soon as your CD drive recognises it. Then follow the Wizard. It is so easy.

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But as allways there is many ways to do things, and a LOT of written words in the manual, and since English is not my mother language it confuses more than it helps me.

This is what I want to do: I want to make a MANUAL cloning of my computer (make a "clone") to an external hard drive so I can recover my computer exacly like it was before disaster struck. (I am speaking of the programs, the song and documents I backup to the external hard drive in "The old way")

Is there anyone out there who can "guide" me in the folloving three things:

Make a clone of my computer on an external hard drive.

Make a recovery disk so I can "restore" my computer if disaster struck.

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Tell me how I test the recovery disk to be sure everything work.

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Ignore the manual, you don't need it. Just run the programme like I told you and use the Wizard. Tell it you want to backup to a USB drive and it will. Use the 'full' option (as opposed to 'partial') and it will make a complete backup of the whole of your hard drive.

No need to make a recovery disk - the CD is the recovery disk

The programme will also tell you when it has successfully completed the backup (with verification if necessary but that takes much longer)


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Thank you Sam.
Helpfull as always.
I think I made it.
Hopefully it is all there if disaster strike again.

Best regards
Tono

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If Ghost confirmed it, its there.

Glad to be able to help


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