[Republic]

very helpful. bookmarking this.

[Varmint Al]

The ultimate backup. I use Norton Ghost 2003. I have bootable floppy converted over to a bootable CD. About every 2 weeks I write a disk image of my C-Drive onto my K-Drive. I have an external USB 1Tb drive and I write the C-Drive image file to it. 

If I have a problem it is a simple matter to use Ghost and write the good image back to my C-Drive. It only takes about 8 minutes to completely restore the C-Drive. I have even used Ghost to restore the C-Drive if I install some software that trys to take over my system. 

As an Ultimate backup I have hard drive that I made a clone of my complete hard drive. It is on a shelf ready to replace my complete system if I have avery difficult problem. 

I also use AVAST, HiJackThis, and Malwarebytes to frequently check my system. AVAST has not let a single problem into my computer in 3 years, since I dumped Norton.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al