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Norton Ghost™ User’s Guide
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™ Norton Ghost User’s Guide The software described in this book is furnished under a license agreement and may be used only in accordance with the terms of the agreement. Documentation version 6.8 PN: 10024709 Copyright Notice Copyright ©1998-2002 Symantec Corporation All Rights Reserved. Any technical documentation that is made available by Symantec Corporation is the copyrighted work of Symantec Corporation and is owned by Symantec Corporation. NO WARRANTY. The technical documentation is bei
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OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE EVEN IF media, or network drive. If a License Module accompanies, precedes, SYMANTEC HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH or follows this license, you may make and use that number of copies of DAMAGES. the Software licensed to you by Symantec as provided in your License Module on an equal number of individual computers pursuant to the IN NO CASE SHALL SYMANTEC'S OR ITS LICENSORS' LIABILITY terms of this license. Your License Module shall c
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Contents Chapter 1 About Norton Ghost Introducing Norton Ghost ............................................................................. 14 What’s new in Norton Ghost 2003 ................................................................ 14 How Norton Ghost works .............................................................................. 15 Virtual Partition ...................................................................................... 15 Hardware restrictions ....................
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Chapter 3 Backing up, restoring, and cloning from Norton Ghost When to use Norton Ghost in Windows .......................................................34 Starting Norton Ghost in Windows ...............................................................34 Starting Norton Ghost from the tray icon ..............................................35 Creating a backup image file ...........................................................................36 Restoring your computer from an image file ...
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Contents 7 Chapter 5 Image file options About Norton Ghost image files .................................................................... 62 Image files and compression .......................................................................... 62 Performance expectations on a network ................................................ 63 Image files and CRC32 ................................................................................... 63 Image files and volume spanning ...................
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8 Contents Chapter 7 Backing up, restoring, and cloning from DOS An overview of using Ghost.exe .....................................................................92 Starting the Norton Ghost executable ............................................................93 Marking your disks ..................................................................................94 Navigating without a mouse ...........................................................................94 Establishing a peer-to
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Contents 9 Chapter 10 Managing partitions using GDisk Introducing GDisk ........................................................................................ 128 Running GDisk ............................................................................................. 128 Overview of main command-line switches ................................................. 129 Online Help for command-line switches ............................................. 130 Switches common to all GDisk commands ...
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10 Contents -CRC32 switch usage .....................................................................................172 Examples of -CRC32 usage ...................................................................173 Files not checked with CRC ..................................................................174 Ghost.exe and the Virtual Partition .............................................................175 Appendix B Transfer methods and hardware setup Transfer and hardware requirements ..
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Contents 11 Writing to a recordable CD or DVD ........................................................... 196 Supported CD-R/RW and DVD drives ................................................ 196 Inaccessible CD-ROM drive ................................................................. 197 CD-R/RW disc ....................................................................................... 198 Using the correct boot disk ................................................................... 199 Loa
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12 Contents
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1 Chapter About Norton Ghost This chapter includes the following topics: ■ Introducing Norton Ghost ■ What’s new in Norton Ghost 2003 ■ How Norton Ghost works ■ Norton Ghost components
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14 About Norton Ghost Introducing Norton Ghost Introducing Norton Ghost Norton Ghost protects your data from computer disasters. The intuitive Windows interface lets you create backup images of your hard disk or selected partitions. You can clone directly between two computers using a network, USB, or parallel connection. Norton Ghost is based on the robust cloning technology of Symantec Ghost Enterprise. Norton Ghost includes the following features: ■ Backup flexibility: Back up directly t
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About Norton Ghost 15 How Norton Ghost works ■ Mapped network drives: A computer on a network can be mapped to a drive letter. This lets Norton Ghost see the computer as a local drive and back up to and restore from it. ■ Ghost Walker: This utility lets you update Security Identifiers (SID) and computer names. Ghost Walker was previously available only in Symantec Ghost, the corporate version of Norton Ghost. ■ Support for FireWire, USB 1.1, USB 2.0: You can now use Norton Ghost to back up,
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16 About Norton Ghost How Norton Ghost works Hardware restrictions Norton Ghost is designed to restore to and clone identical hardware. When Microsoft Windows is installed, drivers necessary to support your hardware are installed to the hard disk and recorded in the Windows Registry. If you move an installation of Windows to another computer, either by directly moving the hard disk or copying it using a Ghost operation, there is no guarantee that it will boot or function correctly. Although
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About Norton Ghost 17 Norton Ghost components There are two methods of restoring your computer: ■ Norton Ghost If you are able to start in Windows, then you may be able to run Norton Ghost from Windows on your hard disk and restore your computer with the latest backup image file that you have created. See “Restoring your computer from an image file” on page 37. ■ Ghost.exe If you cannot start Windows, then you must start your computer from a recovery boot disk or CD/DVD. This starts your comp
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18 About Norton Ghost Norton Ghost components These wizards include: Backup Wizard The Backup Wizard lets you select a hard disk or partition to back up to an image file. Restore Wizard The Restore Wizard lets you restore a hard disk or partition from an image file.
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About Norton Ghost 19 Norton Ghost components Clone Wizard The Clone Wizard lets you clone a hard disk or partition directly from another hard disk or partition. Peer-to-Peer Wizard The Peer-to-Peer Wizard starts Ghost.exe in the Virtual Partition with the peer- to-peer drivers loaded.
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20 About Norton Ghost Norton Ghost components Create Virtual Partition Wizard The Create Virtual Partition Wizard restarts your computer in the Virtual Partition in DOS with files from a selected directory. This enables you to run DOS applications. Run Ghost Interactively Wizard The Run Ghost Interactively Wizard restarts your computer in DOS and runs Ghost.exe. Integrity Check The image integrity check runs an integrity check on backup image files.
