In my business, I purchased a software program which is installed on my hard drive. The company no longersupports this particular program and I need to move it or back it up before the hard drive detonates. I have been unable to back this up or make any workable copies. Is there anything out there which will allow me to back up or copy this software for which I paid a large sum. I would sincerely appreciate some help. Will Ghost take care of this? E. Z. MARK

When u install a software, u write on many places....and if u don't have original support (this is not the usual way in a compagny cuz the licence number maybe on it and when u buy u must be given the right to reinstall it after crash..)yes a ghost of the hdd is the easiest way to retreive ur prog and put it on a new hdd .

Ghost will back up the whole drive (including the OS & all the other programs). I would run Ghost in DOS (boot from the CD). Booting off of the CD has worked for me everytime but the first time I used Ghost in Windows I messed up (not sure how). If you only have one CDRW drive it doesn't matter as Ghost will tell you when to swap Ghost for a blank CD-R (or DVD-R if you have a DVDRW drive). Ghost can compress the image it makes to around 65% of the original. I.E. a 7GB hard drive can be compressed onto a 4.7GB DVD-R. I would empty the recycle bin, temp internet files folder etc first. You might also think of disabling the Restore folder to purge some of the restore points if the image is still very large. This is risky as you might want a restore point when you don't have one. Personally I would just use as many DVD-R's as it takes. If you don't have a DVDRW drive, you can borrow one.......time for my bed 'cos I'm waffeling now {:-(

WINDOWS XP....... I don't know if you would have to re-activate the OS after you have re-installed it. I have only experimented with a corporate version. I have (and I'm happy with) Win ME!!