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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
your computer or other hard drive back to the state it was in when the recovery
point was created.
To recover your computer
1
Start the computer by using the Symantec Recovery Disk.
See “Starting a computer by using the recovery environment ” on page 152.
2
On the Home panel, click Recover My Computer.
Note: If your recovery points are stored on a CD or DVD and you only have
one CD/DVD drive, you can eject the Symantec Recovery Disk CD now. Insert
the CD or DVD that contains your recovery points.
3
On the Welcome page of the wizard, click Next.
If the Symantec Recovery Disk cannot locate any recovery points, you are
prompted to locate one.
Click View by, and then select one of the following options:
Displays all of the discovered recovery points in the order in
which they were created.
If no recovery points were discovered, the table will appear empty.
You should then choose one of the remaining View by options.
Date
Lets you browse to another location, for example, an external
(USB) drive or removable media to select a recovery point (.v2i)
file.
Select this option, and then do the following:
■ Click Browse, locate and select a recovery point (.v2i file), and
then click Open.
■ If you select a network location, type your network
credentials.
■ Click Finish.
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