Tech TIPs from Micro 2000 - Building your image

Tech TIPs from Micro 2000 - Building your image: "Part II: Building Your Image
A Little Review
In our last tip, we discussed creating an image of your system (a complete copy of your hard drive including the OS and applications) using Norton Ghost and an external USB drive. Norton Ghost is the most widely used program for backing up your system and/or building a new one. In most cases, a secondary/external hard drive, CD-R, or DVD-R is used to store the image because of their convenience and affordability. Which one you choose will depend on the size of the image you are storing.
Last week you learned how to create a bootable floppy supporting different devices. This week we want to show you how to clone a drive or partition, not with the use of a bootable floppy, but by using the Windows wizard, which will walk you through the entire process.
Get To The Cloning
First, let's create the back-up.
Start Norton Ghost.
Go to Ghost Basic and click Backup. The Backup Wizard window will prompt you through the process.
Click Next to continue.
Select the source drive or partition you would like to back-up (like your hard drive, usually C:) from the Source box.
Select the media you wish to use (CD-R, DVD-R, external drive, etc) to save the image to in the Destination section, then click Next.
You have the option to put your own description in the Image description box, then click Next. There are Advance settings you can also configure, however using Norton Ghost�s default settings should work.
The wizard will continue explaining what to expect when your system reboots and also displays the configuration setting it will be using. Make sure you save and close any other programs that may be open.
At this point, you will be given the option to create a Disaster Recovery disk in the ca"