How can I do this?

[n74tg]

I have two hard drives and I use Ghost 8.0 to back up my primary to the secondary HD.

Here's what I want to do.
Do a fresh Ghost to drive 2.
Reformat drive 1 (my primary drive)
Reinstall Windows 2000 (to clean out the registry - and hopefully speed up the system).
Ghost everything ELSE back to primary from secondary.

I think this will require me to reinstall all the "else" programs.

Is this the right way to go about it, or is there a better way.

My machine isn't acting noticeably slow right now, but windows 2k has been on there for probably a year since last reinstall.

thanks

 

[GRRRR]

I have done this before (using seccond coppy)
I don't know what ghost 8.0 is so i'll explain using seccond coppy (download it off the net)

install second hard drive as a slave

set seccond coppy (or ghost 8) to coppy everything to the slave

Once it is done , unplug the slave and format away!

install a fresh copy of win 2000 on old drive

put the slave back in and set second copy (or ghost 8) to copy >THE THINGS YOU WAN'T< back (not windows folder or any other system folders).

some programs may, as you say, need a reinstall

That should work

 

[GRRRR]

download second copy here

http://www.centered.com/download.html

 

[mammikoura]

2 harddrives = atleast 2 partitions. And atleast when installing win XP u don't have to delete any partitions, (though I always delete the one with the OS so that all of the crap goes away from the hdd) so u can just reformat one of the hdds and the other one can be left as it was. This way u don't need any programs.

Though as I already said I don't know if win 2k can do this

 

[GRRRR]

do not try to copy every thing by draging a box around it, it will just make your computer crash (particulaly if you have a flakey system anyway)