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Title: Ghost for Windows 7?
Post by snoofy10 on Aug 12^th, 2010 at 11:53pm

I have Windows 7 and have read that there is a particular version of Ghost 15 that is compatible. Anyone happen to know what version is compatible with Windows 7, and where can I purchase it? Thanks

Title: testing backup of laptop...
Post by snoofy10 on Aug 13^th, 2010 at 12:00am

was reading of a way to test your backup to make sure it is indeed working. from my laptop I would attach an external hard drive, start ghost and choose drive c on laptop as source, and external drive as destination. then to restore i'd like to attach a 2nd external hd drive, then restore from the 1st external hard drive containing saved image, and restore it to the 2nd external hd drive.

in this way i would bypass the original c drive on laptop therefore preserving it's integrity, and i'd be able to look at the 2nd external hd drive to see if the saved image worked. i have no idea if this would work. i would appreciate anyones experience or opinion on this.

Title: Re: Ghost for Windows 7?
Post by Brian on Aug 13^th, 2010 at 3:50pm

@ snoofy10

Yes, Ghost 15 is fine with Win7.

Ideally you should restore an image to an internal HD to confirm the process works. Practically, people usually don't have a spare HD so you should confirm the image verifies and mounts in Windows as well as verifies in the CD Recovery Environment. Then you can be almost certain that the image will restore correctly. Verify is primarily a test of your hardware's ability to restore the image.