How does Nortons Ghost work ??

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Does it only use the ammount of space that is taken up ?

Like if my c:\ drive has 4 gigs with everything installed, the ghst
image will only be 4 gigs ?? even though my c:\ drive is 20 gigs ?

If you know what i mean.

Also how does ghost work, witha boot disk or somthing if your c:\
drive is totatly stuffed, just format it and let it know where the
ghost image is, wish i had a DVD burner as i would plac eit ona disc,
but i think i will have to put it on my f:\ Partition, thats 14gigs,
just for my paging file.


Thanks for any info.
 
.......How does Nortons Ghost work ??

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Hi,

Let's say you have 5 gig of files on a 20 gig hard drive. You can use
Ghosts clone option to create a copy of your disk that will fit on any
disk as long as it's at least 5 gig in size. You only need room for what
you want to clone, not the empty space that's on there too.

If you're going to be using Ghost as a backup utility, don't fool around
with burning CDs or making image files etc., you're much better off
making a clone of your drive. A clone is an exact copy of your hard
drive that's bootable if you switch its position on the cabling.


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Like on a seperate hard disk ?, which i don't have.

How about if i just but how about i put and image on my f:\ partiton
which i have, room and use a boot disc to copy it over to the c:\
drive when needed, that ok ?, can i do that with GHOST.

As thats all i need sometimes mysystem gos shitty and instal of a full
reinstal of Xp would be nice just to copy an image over and all fixed
:)

Thanks for the help.
 
OK you're moving along the lines of having a partitioned hard drive and
managing a Ghost image in the second partition.

All of that is fine, in fact a Ghost image file is compressed and manageable
from within Ghost under XP. Ghost works by making an 'image' of your hard
drive, this image is actually a single file, which is compressed and then
written to hard drive [in your case a partition].

To create the image file, one launbches the Ghost application from within XP
and chooses certain parameters [including support for external USB drive or
SCSI drive].

Ghost will then cause the system to restart and boot up into Caldera DOS
[deafult] and perform the 'imaging'. Once complete it will reboot to XP.
You will see that the image file is approx 30-40% the physical size of the
total used space of the C Drive [due to compression].

Now when you have a catastrophic event in your System Drive [C Drive] you
can insert the Ghost floppy boot disk and perform a Restore to extract the
image file [from the second partition] to the C Drive: this completly
overwrites everything on the C Drive.
 
All i wanted to know. once you tell it to sae th prtition to f:]
drivei will make a boot floppy to tel it where it is or you just point
it to wher eit is manualy ?

Sounds eaier than reinstallig xp.

Thanks.


OK you're moving along the lines of having a partitioned hard drive and
managing a Ghost image in the second partition.

All of that is fine, in fact a Ghost image file is compressed and manageable
from within Ghost under XP. Ghost works by making an 'image' of your hard
drive, this image is actually a single file, which is compressed and then
written to hard drive [in your case a partition].

To create the image file, one launbches the Ghost application from within XP
and chooses certain parameters [including support for external USB drive or
SCSI drive].

Ghost will then cause the system to restart and boot up into Caldera DOS
[deafult] and perform the 'imaging'. Once complete it will reboot to XP.
You will see that the image file is approx 30-40% the physical size of the
total used space of the C Drive [due to compression].

Now when you have a catastrophic event in your System Drive [C Drive] you
can insert the Ghost floppy boot disk and perform a Restore to extract the
image file [from the second partition] to the C Drive: this completly
overwrites everything on the C Drive.



Its JUST ME!!! said:
Like on a seperate hard disk ?, which i don't have.

How about if i just but how about i put and image on my f:\ partiton
which i have, room and use a boot disc to copy it over to the c:\
drive when needed, that ok ?, can i do that with GHOST.

As thats all i need sometimes mysystem gos shitty and instal of a full
reinstal of Xp would be nice just to copy an image over and all fixed
:)

Thanks for the help.
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