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Creating a Hard Drive Image using Norton Ghost

This is a tutorial or review of how to take an image, or backup, of a computer using Norton Ghost 15.0 I haveused the Ghost program in the past and always found that the best recovery scenario was to use a restore

floppy. It always worked just fine. This is a review of the Norton Ghost hard drive imaging process.

I downloaded the program from the Symantec site and installed it with no problems. I have a bad habit of not

reading the directions and just trying the program. I don’t believe it should take a 5 hour training course to usea program that I am semi familiar with. This is what I found.

After the installation, live update and a reboot, this screen came up.

I plugged in a Lacie external hard drive and Norton Ghost found it with no problems.

As you can see on the next screen, Norton scanned my system and recommended this strategy. Of course, I took the recommendedsettings.

The recommended settings on this screen looked like what I wanted to accomplish so I accepted it and clicked next.

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Of course I wanted to choose my C Drive.

I had to think about this next screen for a minute. The recommended setting looked like what I wanted but the other choice said thatI should always create an independent recovery point. I took the recommended setting and clicked next.

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Norton Ghost chose my external drive as the backup destination.

Then there were a couple other screens that really didn’t tell me much so I took the defaults to get to the next screen. This screen justtells you what the program is going to do. It looks good to me at this point, so I checked the Run Backup Now checkbox and

smacked the Finish button.

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All is going well. As you can see, I can still work while the program executes its commands, which is a great feature.

When Norton Ghost was finished with the image, I checked to see if the file were indeed where it was supposed to be. It was.

So far, so good. Norton Ghost 15.0 created an image on a separate drive so that I can store that file in a safe location in casesomething happens to my computer. Now let’s see how Norton Ghost does at a restore of this image in the next tutorial.

On a scale of Bytes to Brontobytes, Norton Ghost hard drive imaging gets a Petabyte. The imaging process worked but there were a

lot of steps that could have been eliminated to make the disk imaging process easier.

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Norton Ghost 15

Norton Ghost 15.0 - Too many unexpected things can happen to your computer that would makeyou wish you had this program. If your hard drive crashed, Ghost would be there to restore your

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See all of the Advanced Backup and Recovery features of the new Norton Ghost

Post your comments or questions about Norton Ghost

Comments Date

By ryan2013-01-13

03:03:48

thanks

By gin2013-01-03

01:42:58

is there any advantage and disadvatages of these cloner,,? any idea about this,,??? please..??

By Ali shah2012-12-25

02:22:42

Hi i cant make a backup of os installed in my pc. and after getting backup by windows it self when i run to other computer it

needs activation . please help me to do this job with out requiring activation. thx

By boewy2012-09-21

08:02:27

how can i do it

By Lazola Joni2012-07-03

05:10:00

Question: I have an Image of XP installed as my Operating System. After I installed an application that I want to use on my

computer, whenever I try to open it it gives me the error that reads: "Unable to retrieve hard drive information to determineSystem Identification." Please help...

By Rahul2012-05-07

23:44:14

It's very good norton Ghost by the whole pc backup on the drive of hard- disk.

By khan2012-05-05

05:25:50

how to hard driver make a bootable

By SHAHDI2012-04-25

08:30:38

it is very good but not avialable in boot able versions and not in easy

By Meesam Abbas2012-04-25

05:04:20

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i want to know how should i import Image File of Ghost 14.0 i have back of My system But i cant Install It on my Another Hard

drive plz Help me...

By biren acharya2012-04-25

01:17:04

how to restor the ghost

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