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Originally Posted by Cleo
OK, dumb PC question. We do this on Macs in case an update goes bad.
Can't you just mirror the drive before doing an update and if things go bad just restore the drive from the mirror?
Mac people use Carbon Copy Cloner, I thought Ghost did this on the PC side of things.
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Yes you can use ghost, I use it all the time. But in the case of windows 2K or Xp, because the os is proprietary, if you have say replaced the chip or mobo or other assorted itmes, it may be a but hairy and will probably ask you to reregister. Win2k had a replicator called sysrep that replicated for you too because of this problem.
In case of trouble, I always just have my os on it's own hard drive and install all programs on another so I can see what I had, what I still want, etc. I also always try to keep a mirrored hard drive on hand at all times in a removable case just for problems