Linux Hard Drive Question

That's linux. For your purpose, you would not need ghost. You could even setup a "live" mirroring with software raid-1 making it easy to recover from a bad disk. Though a "offline mirror" has some advantages too. Read "man dd" as a really simple example.

Well, "A:" ... you would have to insert a floppy then :). There are some switches to ghost which let it resume after unreadable sectors. Call ghost from a commandline, with? or --help or whatever gives you an answer. Recent (for sure your 250G) drives already have some part of the disk reserved for "spare sectors" to subsbreastute bad ones. That redirection is transparent to the OS, unless all spare sectors are already used up - but at that time the drive probably already has failed completely. Such a redirection, however, is only possible when the controller discovers difficulty to write to a distinct sector. Sectors you never write to, just read, may become "weak" over time. You should, from time to time, swap the work with the image disk. -- Longhorn error#4711: TCPA NGSCP VIOLATION: Microsoft optical mouse detected penguin patterns on mousepad. Parbreastion scan in progress ÊtoÊremoveÊoffendingÊincompatibleÊproducts.ÊÊReactivateÊMSÊsoftware. Linux woodwoody wood pecker.homnet.at 2.6.10-mm1LinuxCounter#295241,ICQ#4918962