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Miller
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Need to format before recover?
May 31
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, 2007 at 5:24pm
Real newbie question I guess.
Is it necessary/advisable to format a drive before doing a complete drive recovery? Somehow, I mistrust the idea that a recovery point over existing data is completely clean.
If formatting is advisable, what utility is best?
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Re: Need to format before recover?
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May 31
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, 2007 at 5:44pm
Miller,
Your choice. You can restore to a partition or unallocated space. I usually restore to a partition. Ghost deletes the previous partition before it restores the backup image. I never format an existing OS partition prior to restoring. It would make no difference if you did this. The restore would still work.
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rulirahm
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Re: Need to format before recover?
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, 2007 at 4:53am
Brian wrote
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, 2007 at 5:44pm:
Ghost deletes the previous partition before it restores the backup image.
Wait, I'm a litle bit confuse here.
When we boot our computer using Ghost Recovery Environment (RE) disc, we have an option to delete a partition first before Ghost start to restore image. Let's say that we want to recover Windows (drive C). So deleting or not deleting a partition or drive, Ghost will always deletes the partition/drive?
Save time I guess.
But I'm always deleting the partition (make it to be unlocated space) first before restoring image. What is the different between deleting or not deleting?
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Re: Need to format before recover?
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, 2007 at 5:26am
rulirahm wrote
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, 2007 at 4:53am:
What is the different between deleting or not deleting?
None. The restore still works.
I think the delete option is present so that if you want to create a larger unallocated space for the restore then you can do this by deleting two or more adjacent partitions.
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Miller
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Re: Need to format before recover?
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, 2007 at 5:57pm
Thank you Brian. My plan (not unique to me I am sure) is to use an OS/applications-only "distro" restore point, and then restore regularly, every month or so. The point: simply to run a clean XP install. I am convinced it is impossible to sustain a clean XP installation for any length of time. Sad, but that's my, and not just my, experience.
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