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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
■ Scroll down and check Run command.
■ Click OK.
3
Click Run Update Locator.
4
Click Find and retrieve virus definitions.
If more recent virus definitions are not found, you can still scan for viruses
on your damaged computer by using the virus definitions that are on the
Symantec Recovery Disk CD. However, the computer might not be protected
from new viruses or threats.
5
When prompted, click OK.
6
Do one of the following:
■ Insert a floppy disk into the floppy disk drive.
■ Insert a blank, writable CD or DVD into the computer's CD or DVD
recordable drive.
7
Locate the newly created Update Locator Virus Definitions folder on your
computer's desktop and copy it to the blank disk.
Checking your hard disk for errors
If you suspect that your hard disk is damaged, you can examine it for errors.
To check your hard disk for errors
1
In the Analyze panel, click Check Hard Disks for Errors.
2
Select the drive that you want to check.
3
Select any of the following options.
Fixes errors on the selected disk. When
this option is not selected, errors are
displayed but are not fixed.
Automatically fix file system errors
Locates bad sectors and recovers readable
information.
Find and correct bad sectors
4
Click Start.
Recovering a computer
You can restore your computer within the recovery environment. If you have a
recovery point for the hard drives that you want to recover, you can fully recover
Recovering a computer
Recovering a computer
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