Norton Ghost

I'm not a complete novice but not a computer guru either.  I'd like to know if this is possible with Norton Ghost.

 

I'd like to clone/backup my laptop drive to an external drive via my USB port with the idea that if the drive in my laptop dies, I can restore operating system, data and applications from the external drive to a new drive in the laptop.  That way I wouldn't need to reinstall my operating system and applications.  I assume I would have to boot from CD to access the USB port to do this.

 

Thanks

 

Phil