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.