Revert entire system

[357 Mag]

When I was running Win 98 I was using WildFile's GoBack, a program that would allow you to go back in time and revert your entire hard drive back to the way it was, in case you installed something or whatever and you screwed your computer up. Now I'm just using Win 2000 and GoBack will not run on 2000. My question is does anyone know of a software utility that will run on 2000 that will perform a similar function of allowing me to revert back to when everything ran great?

[Xayd]

Norton's Ghost works fine. I use it to keep backup images on my second drive, and haven't had any problems. It doesn't seem to compress NTFS images as much as FAT32, takes about 4 gigs to store an image of my half used 13.6 gig drive. It works, though.

Xayd

[357 Mag]

I thought Norton Ghost was for cloning a hard drive to another hard drive. How could I use this to revert my system? Would I store my working system on a section of my hard drive? Kinda confused.

357 Mag

[Xayd]

Yes, Ghost will take an image of the entire drive, which means all settings and drivers and configurations, of course, and store it wherever you want. The limitation is that you can't restore the image onto a drive partition from that same partition. So, your image must be restored from either a second drive, or a CD, or a second partition.

You could partition off the end of your drive (about 30% of the entire drive is a good round number for ghost images). If you check the docs on Symantec's page for burner support, and your hard drive isn't terribly big (10 gigs or less) then you also have the option of creating bootable CD's when you take the image. This depends on if your burner is supported by the Ghost software, of course, since the application itself runs in DOS mode.

Xayd