I got a virus tonight and decided to recover my system with my external drive. The external drive contains a bootable clone of my C: drive that I made with Norton Ghost. I tried booting from the external drive but I got a blue screen. If it would have worked I would have made another clone back to C: and boot from that.
The only copying software that runs outside of Windows is a CD-ROM that I got with a Hitachi drive 4-5 years ago. It was able to start the copying process, but it always fails at around 8%. I am almost positive that both of these drives are in good working order, I just need a better copying/cloning software to use outside of Windows.
Any suggestions?
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1 Evita // Oct 6, 2008
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2 thirty5alive // Oct 6, 2008
norton ghost is pretty good and I used it all the time, But out of 10 times i try it, 2 times it fails on me.
so probably could be a bad copy.
in most cases, Is faster to clean out a virus then what it is to restore it back to the original factory or when you did the clone.
but norton ghost is good, be good if you are able to use the 2003 version which makes bootable cdrom and dv disk which is what most big computer mfgr used to use.
3 Lee P // Oct 6, 2008
If you are trying to do it from an external hard drive, you need to set the BIOS to boot to it. You can’t do it any other way except the original CD,
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