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15About Norton Ghost
How Norton Ghost works
■ Mapped network drives: A computer on a network can be mapped to a drive
letter. This lets Norton Ghost see the computer as a local drive and back up to
and restore from it.
■ Ghost Walker: This utility lets you update Security Identifiers (SID) and
computer names. Ghost Walker was previously available only in Symantec
Ghost, the corporate version of Norton Ghost.
■ Support for FireWire, USB 1.1, USB 2.0: You can now use Norton Ghost to
back up, restore, and clone to and from FireWire, USB 1.1, and 2.0 devices,
including hard disks and supported CD-R/RW and DVD drives.
■ DVD support: You can use Norton Ghost to back up to and restore from
supported DVD+ R/RW and DVD-R/RW drives.
■ Expanded CD-R/RW support: The CD-R/RW drives supported by Norton
Ghost have been increased to include most new drives.
■ Large drive support: Norton Ghost supports backing up, restoring, and
cloning IDE drives larger than 128 GB.
How Norton Ghost works
The basis of Norton Ghost is a cloning function that creates an image file that
contains all of the information required to recreate a complete disk or partition.
Image files contain a backup copy of an entire drive or one or more partitions.
The image file can be restored to one or more partitions or disks, replacing
existing data.
Virtual Partition
The Virtual Partition is a partition that is created when you perform a backup,
restore, clone, or other operation from Windows. All the files required for the
backup, restore, or clone are automatically installed into the Virtual Partition and
the task performed. Most of the Virtual Partition operation is not apparent to
you. However, there may be some occasions when you must know what the
Virtual Partition is and what it does, such as if you want to run Ghost.exe or
another application from the Virtual Partition.
One primary partition slot must be available in the MBR for the Virtual Partition.