Norton Ghost Guide: How To Creating and Restoring Image

This is a tutorial teach you how to create and restore images with Norton Ghost
To CREATE an image:

1) Launch Norton Ghost by booting into it using a Norton Ghost boot disk.





2) Select Local -> Partition -> To Image



3) Select your source drive





4) Select your source partition





5) Select your image destination





6) Name the image file (do not exceed 8 characters)





7) Select compression (Fast is good, unless space is an issue, then pick High)





8) Begin dumping





9) Imaging in process





10) After image dumping is complete, you should get the message: Dump Completed Successfully





11) If successful, Check the image to verify its validity and integrity. Select Local -> Check -> Image File. Ghost will walk thru all the steps of restoring the image except writing data to disk.





12) If the image is good, here's the message you want to see





13) Quit Norton Ghost





14) Remove the Norton Ghost boot disk from the drive and restart the computer (Ctrl + Alt + Delete).

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To RESTORE an image:

1) Launch Norton Ghost by booting into it using a Norton Ghost boot disk.





2) Select Local -> Partition -> From Image





3) Select the drive where the image is stored





4) Select image file (*.gho)





5) Select the destination partition to be restored/overwritten (be absolutely sure this is the destination you want overwritten)





6) Confirm the dreaded overwrite question [Make sure you know what the hell you're doing here! Again, be absolutely sure this is the destination you want overwritten] and click Yes.

RESTORING an image is the most dangerous part of using Ghost, because you can LOSE data if you over-write the wrong partition/disk (destination). It has been done by people unfamilair with the program.

Once the data on the destination (partition/disk) is over-written, there's nothing you can do to get it back. Grown men have cried over this. Make sure you select your destination correctly. If unsure, QUIT out and seek help.

Also make sure you select the correct image to restore. Restoring the wrong image is not as bad as restoring an image to the wrong destination, because you can always go back re-restore the correct image.





7) When the image restore is complete, remove the Norton Ghost boot disk from the drive and restart the computer.

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