Norton Ghost Tutorial

Norton Ghost is a great piece of software for backing up your software,

making an image of your drive or just making a backup image of your operating system.

This is a step by step guide to do just that.

Lets begin by opening Norton Ghost.

This will initiate the first screen of the backup process.

The next thing you want to do is click on "back up drives".

This will bring up another window as shown below so to proceed just click "next".

In the next screen, since we selected to backup drives, are the current driveson the system. From here you must choose which drive to backup. After the selection has been made click "next".

This next screen is the location screen. Its pretty well self explanatory so now you must decide where you wish to put the backup copy. A rule of thumb here is to NEVERstore the image on the drive you are about to image. This way, if that drive becomesunusable, you will not be able to access the backup to restore it. I put the backup ina new folder I created andnamed it "Backup image of system c". Make certain thedesired drive to backup is highlighted. Then give it whatever name you desire. In this next screen there are more options. The first being Degree of compression. I chose standard because it works well for me. You also have the option to verify the backup image.You can opt to compress the file to fit to cd as well as enter a description of the image. I just named it" Backup image January15/2005". You can enter whatever description you wish at this time. There is also the option to password protect the image by clicking the advanced tab and entering a password in the applicable space provided. Ignore bad sectors during the process, and disable smart selector round outthe options.

The next screen verifies what you want too do. You should see an X beside the options you chose. If not then go back and recheck your options. Press "Next" if everything is to your liking.
It is now making an image of the drive you selected too make.

Now at this point just click "close" and your done.