38 Backing up, restoring, and cloning from Norton Ghost
Restoring your computer from an image file
To restore a disk or partition
1 In the Ghost Basic window, click Restore, and then click Next.
2 In the Restore Wizard window, click Browse, and find the image file from
which to restore.
3 If you want to view the contents of the image file in Ghost Explorer, click
Open image in Ghost Explorer.
See “Viewing image files” on page 119.
4 Click Next.
5 In the left pane, select the image file or partition within the image file to
restore.
6 In the right pane, select the destination hard disk or partition that is to be
overwritten.
7 Click Next.
8 The Overwrite partition warning dialog box appears if you are overwriting
any of the following:
■ The current Windows partition
■ The Ghost installation
Click Next to continue.
9 If this is the first time that you have used Norton Ghost on this computer, in
the Add Ghost Disk Identification dialog box, identify the disk.
See “Identifying a hard disk” on page 43.
If you have previously used Norton Ghost on this computer, then this dialog
box does not appear.
10 If you want to set advanced settings for the restore, then click Advanced
Settings.
See “Setting Norton Ghost options and defaults” on page 46.
11 Click Next.
12 In the Important Information dialog box, if you do not want to view this
warning again, click Don’t show this screen again, and then click Next.
13 Click Run Now to restore the image file to the selected hard disk or partition.
Your computer is rebooted and the restore operation completed.
Warning: The destination disk or partition is completely overwritten with
no chance of recovering any data.