R. McCarty wrote:
> I'd opt for Acronis True Image instead of Norton Ghost.
>
> One issue for all imaging is the potential loss of personal
> data. Since XP stores your profile data on the same volume
> with XP if you use an Image to recover from an earlier date
> your personal data ( Image date to present ) will be lost.
> The way I avoid that is to have a separate partition to store
> all my personal data. This way any recovery only restores
> XP & Applications and the data isn't overwritten. Takes a
> little work to redirect/setup but very valuable long-term.
>
> <isotobin@identicalimagepleez.org> wrote in message
> news:Z8ednaBYKaS4lerYnZ2dnUVZ_omdnZ2d@giganews.com ...
>> I'm tired of complete reinstalls once a year. What's the best program?
>> I've read pros and cons on Newegg.com.
>>
>> Do they truly back up the entire OS, registry and programs to DVD?
>> If so, how do they shutdown the protected files and system files that are
>> currently running?
>
>
I image my drive approximately once a month (Ghost) and I do
nightly backups to another usb drive using Retrospect.

On more than one occasion, I've restored the Ghost image and
then updated the actual data files from my nightly backups.

Louise