8 Contents
Chapter 7 Backing up, restoring, and cloning from DOS
An overview of using Ghost.exe .....................................................................92
Starting the Norton Ghost executable ............................................................93
Marking your disks ..................................................................................94
Navigating without a mouse ...........................................................................94
Establishing a peer-to-peer connection with Ghost.exe ................................95
Creating a backup image file ...........................................................................97
Backing up a hard disk to an image file ..................................................97
Backing up a partition to an image file ...................................................99
Restoring from an image file .........................................................................101
Restoring a hard disk from an image file ..............................................101
Restoring a partition from an image file ...............................................103
Cloning disks and partitions .........................................................................104
Cloning disk to disk ...............................................................................105
Cloning partition to partition ...............................................................106
Verifying image integrity ..............................................................................107
Adding switches to your Ghost operation ...................................................108
Chapter 8 Backing up and restoring with CD-R/RW and DVD-R/RW
Image files and CD/DVD writers .................................................................112
Saving an image file directly to a CD-R/RW or DVD-R/RW drive ............113
Saving an image file to an unsupported CD-R/RW or
DVD-R/RW drive ..................................................................................114
Splitting an image file during a backup ................................................115
Chapter 9 Using Ghost Explorer to modify image file contents
Understanding Ghost Explorer ....................................................................118
Viewing image files ........................................................................................119
Launching a file .............................................................................................119
Extracting a file or directory from an image file ..........................................120
Modifying image files in Ghost Explorer .....................................................120
Adding, moving, and deleting files .......................................................121
Listing the contents of an image file .............................................................121
Setting span file sizes .....................................................................................121
Splitting an image file ....................................................................................122
Compiling a file .............................................................................................122
Determining Norton Ghost image file version ............................................123
Using Ghost Explorer from the command line ...........................................123
Using Ghost Explorer with long file names ..........................................125