Hi Carol The machine never crashed it was just cluttered and little irritations had started to happen so I did a full back up onto my second drive in 2 sections. The data first and then everything else. The data I would need but the rest was for insurance as I'd never done a re-install before. I reformatted my C drive and re-installed Win XP and all my applications. Then I did the data. Back-ups and restore of the data were done in Windows so my Supernova was operational all the time. I don't know what Ghost does that the WinXP back up facility doesn't do except for some advanced stuff I wouldn't understand anyway. So my copy of Ghost stays where it is, in the cupboard. Roger Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to. Mark Twain ----- Original Message ----- From: Carol Pearson To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:00 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: norton ghost Roger, So you're saying you re-installed Windows, then did an XP backup. Then, you crashed . . . or what! I can see you could re-install anything if you hadn't crashed badly but, if you can't get into the system, what then? -- Carol carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: roger south To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:29 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: norton ghost I do all my backups using the Windows XP facility and it works in Windows so screen readers are fully functional. I have done full copies of my hard drives when I did a clean re-install and lost absolutely nothing. I do in fact have a copy of Ghost and just do not like it. Roger Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to. Mark Twain ----- Original Message ----- From: Carol Pearson To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:10 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: norton ghost Please keep it on list, if you don't mind. -- Carol carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: kevin cussick To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:00 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: norton ghost Hi, Can you tell me off list just how you work the program? And what version you are using.