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16 About Norton Ghost
How Norton Ghost works
Hardware restrictions
Norton Ghost is designed to restore to and clone identical hardware. When
Microsoft Windows is installed, drivers necessary to support your hardware are
installed to the hard disk and recorded in the Windows Registry. If you move an
installation of Windows to another computer, either by directly moving the hard
disk or copying it using a Ghost operation, there is no guarantee that it will boot
or function correctly. Although Microsoft provides tools, such as Sysprep, that
may alleviate these problems to volume license holders, these tools are usually
unavailable to consumer or small business users.
A computer with Windows installed should be copied to a computer with
identical hardware. Moving or cloning file systems that do not contain an
operating system does not usually present a problem.
Preparing for an emergency
After you have installed Norton Ghost and created a backup image, you must
create and test a recovery boot disk for use in an emergency. If you experience a
critical failure and cannot start your computer, then you must have a recovery
boot disk. This lets you start your computer in DOS and run Norton Ghost to
restore your computer.
Note: If you saved your image file directly to CD or DVD, then you do not need a
recovery boot disk. Norton Ghost includes Ghost.exe if you save the image file to
CD or DVD.