Best Computer Backup
By ryan ~ April 24th, 2008. Filed under: pc help, software.
The best computer backup program is still Norton Ghost. I still use Norton Ghost 2003 for all my backing up and disk imaging. Basically Norton Ghost can backup your entire hard drive to an image file, kind of like taking a snapshot of your system. You can put that image file on a DVD/R or another hard drive (internal or external) for safe keeping.
If you ever run into trouble, like your hard drive crashing or OS failure, you can simply run the handy Ghost diskette or CD and copy your backed up image file onto a new hard drive. It doesn’t take that long, and when you’re done you have a working operating system and all your files are back again (at least the ones that were there when you created the image file)!!
Norton Ghost can also be used for data recovery from a bad hard drive. Simply go into the options menu and check to ignore errors while imaging. The result might not be all the data you need to run the operating system, but it should give you at least some readable data.