Software Backups

Need a backup software which can restore my whole os?

without installing the software first. I heard about norton ghost. How's it ? how does it work? Any one used it? I mean I want to create a backup of the whole hard dirve, when it crashes, can I just use that cd to boot it up and restore everything even the os? ccc is for mac, i want something for pc

Public Comments

1. try "Veritas" coz its easy to use and i think its cheaper than norton....
2. i use a program called 'carbon copy cloner'. i have a mac but ccc might work for pc as well. basically all you need is an external hd. partition it and make it bootable. ccc software will allow you to copy everything or just essential files. the external hd will be used to boot up the computer by proxy and will contain your backup. in case your comp crashes you can just boot up the external hd and copy the files to your comp. ccc is a freely downloadable program. just google it.