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HI
My Dell Inspiron e1505 has a secondary partition (D:) containing a Dell restore image that supposedly can be used to restore the laptop to its original shipping configuration.
Since I have Ghost 2008, should I delete the partition (10 gig) and relay on Ghost only?
If I do not delete the D: partition, should I also Ghost (one time disk copy) the D: partition in addition to the C: drive?
Thanks, Lauren
I have Ghost, so I was thinking that is my "paddle".
Philosophicallly, if you have ghost, there should be no need for the Dell D: restore partition. Right?
Why not delete D: partition (save 10 gig in the process) and then use Ghost to do a one time dick copy of the entire drive (c:) ?
I wouldn't need the Dell restore feature because I have Ghost and a copy of the entire drive.
Lauren
Sorry, the reference was to the fact that you might not have an image to restore from. Without the image, Ghost can't do a restore.
If you have Ghost, you can make an image of your laptop -- something I would suggest be done on a regular basis. Then in the event of some unfortunate event, e.g. a hard drive crash, you could restore one of your backups. On a restore Ghost will restore the laptop to the exact state it was in at the time of the backup. So backing up on a regular basis reduces your risk of loss in the event that something bad happens.
As to where you store the images, that is up to you. Dell chose to put its image in the D: partition. You could certainly do the same. However, with disk space being such a precious thing on a laptop, you could do as many others and save your backups to an external USB drive or to a network location. Then you could delete the D: partition and use the space as you see fit. To restore you would only need to boot to the Ghost CD and restore your image from wherever you saved it.
One good precaution is to run the validation for the Ghost CD and/ or create a custom recovery CD. This way you can be assured you can restore your image when you need to since this process makes sure all the needed drivers are on the Recovery CD.
Perhaps this is a question that would be better answered by Dell. I know that Dell provides a copy of Ghost on the Inspirons, but I do not know how they have set it up to do a restore back to the factory state and there are several ways they could go about it. Though for some reason, it sticks in my mind that with Dells you can do something like <Ctrl><F11> on boot to start the restore process.
But one thing I would suggest, you do not want to delete the D: partition as that is where the image is stored. And to restore the computer you would need the image file in that partition. If you deleted it, you would be in the proverbial situation of being up the creek with out a paddle when trying to restore.