Overview of Norton Ghost 10.0
by Georgiana
The easiest way to back-up and recover your
computer
Norton Ghost 10.0 is a very powerful back-up tool
that backs up everything on your computer : applications, settings,
operating system, music, private documents, photos including removable
media such as :CDs, DVDs and USB drives. There are many features
you can use at any time to ensure that your data is backed-up and
that your back-ups are being managed in a way that works for you.
Possible Uses
- Recover selected files and folders from within
Windows using a current recovery point when you have lost files,
folders, programs, or hardware files on a drive.
- Recover a drive from within Windows using a
current recovery point when you have lost secondary drive such
as D or E drive.
- Recover selected files and folders from within
the Symantec recovery environment using a current recovery point
when you know which files you need to recover your computer.
- Recover your entire computer from within the
Symantec recovery environment using a current recovery point when
you cannot start Windows and you do not know the cause.
System Requirements:
- OS Required : Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition,
Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
SP4 or later.
- Software Requirements : Microsoft .NET Framework
1.1
- System Requirements Details : 300 MHz - RAM
256 MB - HD 160 MB
The section from the main window of the program
introduces you to the three primary views within Norton Ghost:
Backup panel: Gives you access
to all key backup features of Norton Ghost needed for configuring,
scheduling, and backing up your computer.
Recovery panel: Lets you restore
your entire computer back to a date and time when it was working
normally, restore files and folders, and explore, manage, and optimize
recovery points.
The most important features of this program are:
Back-up Now
This is a tool that allows the user to define recovery
points similar to Microsoft Windows's own System Restore. Unlike
MS Windows, Norton Ghost 10.0 gives access to directly customize
back-up options suitable to the user's needs.
To get started you will need to define an initial
back-up point. External drives such as USB sticks are the best places
to store the recovery points. This easy setup provides protection
for each partition on your HDD.
Recover My Computer
This is another important key feature of Norton
Ghost 10.0 which helps you restore all your files and settings using
the back-up points created previously with Back-Up Now. All you
have to do is to hit the View All Recovery Points button on the
Recover My Computer window and select from the list below the desire
recovery point.
Norton Ghost makes the recovery very easy by letting
you browse through the contents of recovery points, as if you are
looking at the original files and folders that existed on your computer
when the recover point was created. You can restore all lost information
to a secondary drive, which is a drive other than the primary drive
where Windows is installed (typically C).
For example, if your computer has a D drive and
the data has been lost, you can use the recover My Computer feature
to restore drive D back to an earlier date and time before data
was lost.
Recover My Files
This feature is used if you can run Windows on
a trouble computer so you can restore individual files or folders
from a recovery point without having to exit windows.
The process is pretty much the same as recovering
My Computer, the difference is that this method is used only if
you have traced the cause of a computer failure to a certain folder
or files, or if you have simply lost important files and do not
want to restore your entire computer.
To recover files simply browse the contents of
the chosen back-up point from the window above and hit the Recover
Files and Folders button.
Copy My Hard Drive
This is an advanced feature of Norton Ghost 10.0
and it's used when upgrading or adding a second hard drive, copy
all existing files, programs, and settings directly onto the new
drive. If the hard drive you are copying contains more than one
partition, you must copy the partitions one at a time to the new
hard drive.
Unlike the create Recovery Point wizard, Copy Drives
does not create a recovery point file. Instead, it duplicates your
drive directly to another drive. The wizard lets you chose the drive
you want to clone and the destination drive where you want to save
it.
The last wizard window allows you to customize
some advanced options such as
Checking source and destination drive for errors
Copying MBR(Main Boot Record) if you are cloning a primary partition
Destination partition type (primary/logical partition)
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