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Table Of Contents
- Norton Ghost™
- Technical Support
- Contents
- 1. Introducing Norton Ghost™
- 2. Installing Norton Ghost
- 3. Ensuring the recovery of your computer
- 4. Getting Started
- Key product components
- How you use Norton Ghost
- Starting Norton Ghost
- Configuring Norton Ghost default options
- Selecting a default backup destination
- Adjusting the effects of a backup on computer performance
- Adjusting default tray icon settings
- Managing file types
- Using aliases for external drives
- Configuring FTP settings for use with Offsite Copy
- Logging Norton Ghost messages
- Enabling email notifications for product (event) messages
- 5. Best practices for backing up your data
- 6. Backing up entire drives
- 7. Backing up files and folders
- 8. Running and managing backup jobs
- Running an existing backup job immediately
- Adjusting the speed of a backup
- Stopping a backup or recovery task
- Verifying that a backup is successful
- Editing backup settings
- Enabling event-triggered backups
- Editing a backup schedule
- Turning off a backup job
- Deleting backup jobs
- Adding users who can back up your computer
- 9. Backing up remote computers from your computer
- 10. Monitoring the status of your backups
- About monitoring backups
- Monitoring backup protection from the Home page
- Monitoring backup protection from the Status page
- Configuring Norton Ghost to send SNMP traps
- Customize status reporting
- Viewing drive details
- Improving the protection level of a drive
- Using event log information to troubleshoot problems
- 11. Exploring the contents of a recovery point
- 12. Managing backup destinations
- 13. Recovering files, folders, or entire drives
- 14. Recovering a computer
- About recovering a computer
- Starting a computer by using the recovery environment
- Preparing to recover a computer
- Recovering a computer
- Restoring multiple drives by using a system index file
- Recovering files and folders from the recovery environment
- Using the networking tools in the recovery environment
- Viewing properties of recovery points and drives
- About the Support Utilities
- 15. Copying a drive
- A. Using a search engine to search recovery points
- Index
Unmounting a recovery point drive
All of your mounted recovery point drives are unmounted when you restart the
computer. You can also unmount the drives without restarting the computer.
To dismount a recovery point in Windows Explorer
1
In Windows Explorer, navigate to the mounted recovery point.
2
Right-click the drive, and then click Dismount Recovery Point.
To dismount a recovery point in Recovery Point Browser
1
In the Recovery Point Browser, in the tree view, locate the mounted recovery
point.
2
Right-click the mounted recovery point, and then click Dismount Recovery
Point.
Viewing the drive properties of a recovery point
You can view the following drive properties of a recovery point:
A user-assigned comment that is associated with the recovery
point.
Description
The original drive letter that was assigned to the drive.Original drive letter
The cluster size (in bytes) of the FAT, FAT32, or NTFS drive.Cluster size
The file system type used within the drive. For example, FAT,
FAT32, or NTFS.
File system
The selected drive's status as either a primary partition or a
logical partition.
Primary/Logical
The total size (in megabytes) of the drive. This total includes used
space and unused space.
Size
The amount of used space (in megabytes) within the drive.Used space
The amount of unused space (in megabytes) within the drive.Unused space
Indicates if there are any bad sectors on the drive.Contains bad sectors
123Exploring the contents of a recovery point
Unmounting a recovery point drive