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Title: Norton Ghost
Post by: Simon on July 31, 2003, 10:01

I used Norton Ghost this morning for the first time.  I have have a shiny new floppy disc, but haven't a clue what's on it, or what do do with it!

What next?  I thought I could create a CD back up of my PC, but I don't seem to have that option, unless I'm missing something.

Thicket, Sussex.   :-\

Title: Re:Norton Ghost
Post by: Adept on July 31, 2003, 13:57

With some software, it is advisable to RTFM Simon ::) ;D

Title: Re:Norton Ghost
Post by: Simon on July 31, 2003, 14:08

What manual?   ;)  It must have got lost.  I think there's a pdf one on here somewhere...  now, what did I do with that new ream of paper...   :o ;D

Title: Re:Norton Ghost
Post by: lobo on July 31, 2003, 18:14

@Simon
Boot grom the floppy and run "ghost,exe" this will start the Ghost program and will ask you which drive you want to image, select your C: drive and tell the program where to save the image to (it must be saved to another partition or drive), the program will the create an image of your C drive in that location

To make a Recovery CD you must burn that image to a CD-R/CD-RW if you want to restore a drive, boot with the floppy and select image to drive, select the CD image and tell it to restore to IDE 0 which should be the first drive on your PC

Brian ;D

Title: Re:Norton Ghost
Post by: Tony on July 31, 2003, 18:35

Quote from: Adept on July 31, 2003, 13:57

With some software, it is advisable to RTFM Simon ::) ;D

Hooray for Brian, our talking manual  ;D

Title: Re:Norton Ghost
Post by: Simon on July 31, 2003, 19:43

Thanks (again) Brian!

I only have one partition at the moment, so this looks like it could be a fairly major operation.  I'll have to wait until I am in the right frame of mind for something like that!   ;D ;D