After running Norton Ghost, the first thing you see is the main menu, in which the meaning of each option is as follows:
Local: Operation between local hard disks.
LPT: Operation between hard disks connected through parallel ports.
NetBios: operation between network hard disks
Options: Settings (usually using default values)
Taking a single machine as an example, select the Local menu, which includes the following submenus:
Disks: hard disk operation options
Partition: partition operation options
Check: Check function (generally ignored)
Ok, after understanding the meaning of menu items, we can start the "reloading journey". Figure 1: Select "Partition" to "Mirror"
Select Partition to view the following commands:
To partition: partition to partition replication
TO Image: the partition content is backed up as a mirror image.
Restore from Image: Mirror to Partition
For ordinary users, "To Mirror" (the contents of the partition are backed up as a mirror file) or "From Mirror" (restoring from a mirror file to a partition) are the most commonly used. Figure 2: Selecting the Right Source Hard Disk
First, start the machine in pure DOS mode with a clean startup disk, and execute the Ghost.exe file. After the main screen of Ghost is displayed, select "Local → Partition → Mirror", and the hard disk selection screen will be displayed, and select the hard disk "1" where the source partition is located (note that the example is dual disk). Figure 3: Selecting the Source Partition Correctly
Select the partition where you want to create the image file (that is, the source partition). Here, select the partition "1" (that is, partition C), and then click the OK button. Figure 4: Named image file
Select the location to save the image file (pay special attention to the partition C that needs to be backed up), and then type the name of the image file in the File Name text box, such as "C_BAK" or "C_BAK". GHO ",and then press enter. Figure 5: Start creating partition images.
Next, Norton Ghost will ask you if you need to compress the image file, and "No" means no compression; "Fast" means to perform small-scale compression, but the backup work is performed at a faster speed; "High" means that the compression is high, but the backup speed is relatively slow. Generally choose "high". Although the speed is a little slower, the hard disk space occupied by the image file will be greatly reduced.
After all these preparations were completed, Norton Ghost began to make this image file named "C_BAK". "GHO for you. According to the author's experience, the backup speed has a great relationship with the CPU frequency and content capacity. Generally speaking, 64MB of memory can reach 7 1mb/min. The author's C drive uses about 2GB, which only takes about 10 minutes. In order to avoid deleting files by mistake, it is best to set the attribute of this mirror file to "read only".
Restore primary partition mirror
Through the above work, we have backed up a mirror file named "C_BAK". GHO ",if necessary, we can follow the following steps to quickly restore the true colors of the C disk. Figure 6: Selecting a Source Image File
Run Norton Ghost, select "local → partition → slave image" in the main menu (note that this is a "slave image" item), and select the master partition image file C_BAK. GHO from disk d just now. Figure 7: Determining the Source Partition
Select the partition to be restored from "C_BAK". GHO "file. Only the mirror image of the c partition, choose this partition directly. Figure 8: Selecting the Target Hard Disk
Select the target hard disk, usually the main hard disk, to which you want to restore the image. Figure 9: Determining the Target Partition
Select the destination partition C on the destination hard disk to which you want to restore the image. Be careful not to choose the wrong target partition, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.
Finally, Norton Ghost will ask you again if you want to restore, and warn you that if you restore, all data on the target partition will disappear. Click "y" to start the recovery operation, which takes about the same time as mirroring. After the recovery work, Norton Ghost will suggest restarting the system and follow the prompts. Soon a clean and perfect basic system will reappear in front of you.
Matters needing attention in using Norton Ghost
1, put Norton Ghost on the startup disk;
2. Set the working mode of hard disk correctly, so that your hard disk can work in Ultra ATA/33/66 mode, and the speed of making mirror files is faster;
3. Image files should be kept as clean and basic as possible. The more application software is installed, the more serious the system modification is, and the more likely it is to make mistakes when installing new software, so don't install too many application software before making image files;
4. When restoring the image file, all the original data on the target disk will be overwritten, which cannot be restored by any anti-deletion method. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
After entering Ghost, the meaning of the main menu you first see is as follows:
Operation between local and local hard disks;
LPT, the operation between hard disks connected by parallel ports;
NetBios, the operation between network hard disks;
Options, settings.
Ok, now you can use the mouse to select "Loacl→ Partition → Mirror" to inform Ghost that you want to make a backup. You just need to save the backup of the partition to a mirror file.
Select the hard disk where the partition to be mirrored is located. If you have multiple hard disks on your machine, you need to choose which hard disk the image file will be stored on here. Hey hey, Norton can be a little silly sometimes. Why can't he skip this step when he encounters a hard drive?
Select the partition to clone. Take my machine as an example. I want to choose the first partition (area C) when backing up Windows 98 operating system, the second partition (area D) when backing up Windows 2000, and then choose OK to continue.
Select the storage location of the image file (. Gho file), you will make. Ha ha, attention-the "Win98" after the "file name" in the figure needs to be entered by yourself. Of course, you can also enter "Windows 2000" or "sys" or something according to the specific situation. Finally, click "Save" to continue the next step.
Next, Ghost will let you choose the compression ratio. "No" means no compression, "high" means high-rate compression (the compression speed is naturally slower), and "fast" means swinging, and both parties want to touch it. Now the price of hard disk is very cheap, "an inch of money can't buy an inch of time", so smart people naturally choose not to compress it. Hehe, it will be much faster to carve mirror files like this.
The work of carving the mirror image is finished in 5 minutes 19 seconds, which is fast enough. Hehe, this is a 545MB system with 5400 rpm hard disk. If your hard disk is 7200 rpm, and the engraving is only pure Windows 98, you can finish engraving the mirror file in about 2 minutes at most.
After carving the mirror image file, you will only be surprised but not indignant in the face of various intractable diseases of the system (hehe, at least the first few times). Select Local → Partition → From Image.
After selecting the previously carved image file (win98.gho), select the partition to be restored in the next two options (similar to the case of carving the image), and with a click of the mouse, Ghost will begin to bury its head in the shape of a cow (in fact, it will only take a few minutes, which is the same as the time spent carving the image).
I especially remind you that the process of selecting the drive and partition during recovery must be cautious again, because once the recovery process is started, all the contents on the target partition will be completely overwritten and can no longer be found.