2 hard drive setup.

[Blacksheep2294]

I have been hit with adware/spyware twice in the last week. I just redid my system saturday and now I have to again. Since Norton cant seem to do its job of getting rid of them I was wondering a couple of things. I want to know if there is a way to make a duplicate copy of my c: drive to a USB hard drive I use to backup my system. ( I dont lose anything since I backup often, just a pain to have to reload everything when this happens) I mean an actual copy as in regestry and all just like it sits in my computer. I got rid of all the junk last night but I ended up having to use DOS to do it and lost a few .dll's i needed. tried reinstalling windows without reformatting and it hangs at 65% with a SUWIN error. (this aint the first time) Since it always seems to hit windows files I think Im going to make it a dual setup and put windows on a c: drive and then put everything else on a d: drive. I can do that no problem but would still like to make a copy of the c: drive on the USB drive. Thanks in advance. Steven

[glc]

Use a hard drive cloning program that has USB drivers. I use Apricorn's Clone EZ, which ships with their USB drive housings on a bootable CD. I would assume that the same thing can be accomplished with Norton Ghost and other such programs.

Norton is almost useless dealing with spyware/adware, it's primarily an antivirus. You need dedicated software for that purpose such as Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy, and Spyware Blaster.

By the way, 90% of the time, a SUWIN error is due to faulty ram.

[inflames988]

i had a similar problem....norton told me i had tons of viruses/spyware on my comp but couldnt get rid of most of them...i also had an SUWIN error as well, and after having the comp reformatted and everything it has been working fine (well somewhat, its already loaded up with spyware and slowing down significantly) but i dont think in this case the SUWIN error is due to ram, although as GLC said most of the time it is so it still could be.

[Blacksheep2294]

Thanks, Ill look at Staples for a ghost program.