Norton Ghost: Recommended Papers

Norton Ghost 2001 Sunday, December 31, 2000

What if, one fine morning you discover that your machine has crashed due to the file system getting corrupt? Even if you had a backup of your data, it’d take quite some time to restore everything to normal. You’d have to install the operating system, all applications, and your personal preferences before you even get to the data. Norton Ghost 2001 is a solution to these problems. The software works with Win 9x, NT, and 2000. It helps you clone your hard drive and restore it easily.

Norton Ghost 2001

PC Cloning and imaging SW.
Rs 2,300
Features: Supports Linux EXT2, FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS file systems; hard drive cloning; disk/partition image creation; compression on the fly.
Pros: Easy to deploy; incremental updates of data.
Cons: None.

The software dumps all your hard disk data into an image file, which can either be stored on a local partition, a network drive or burnt on to a CD. The main application or the Norton Ghost Executable has to be run from a boot disk, which can be created using the Ghost Boot Wizard. You can then run the program from DOS and create or restore any hard drive image.

Apart from this, the product also has various other utilities. You wouldn’t want to keep creating an image every time you made changes to your system. That’s why, there’s the Ghost Explorer for updating your system’s ghost image with the latest file changes. The application looks similar to Windows Explorer and supports drag-n-drop. Another utility called G Disk is a DOS application, which lets you do command-line partitioning and formatting. It also gives better partition information report than Fdisk and you can also hide or unhide partitions. So you can create a separate hidden partition on your hard disk and dump the ghost image there; safe from prying eyes and accidental deletion possibilities.

ITS Ghost Disk Imaging Software

Gates Foundation Document "Norton Ghost 6.0 Instructions"

Soulmaniacs - Ghost Tutorial

Making a Ghost Image

Operating Systems- Editing a File inside a Ghost Image

Ghost Images

Pushing a Ghost image onto a computer

Computing.Net - Burning Norton ghost image

forensics 2001/05: GHOST Image test/switches

Norton Ghost

[DOC] What is Ghost

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