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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
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If the installation program does not run, type the following command at a
command prompt:.
<drive>:\autorun.exe
where <drive> is the drive letter of your media drive.
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In the CD browser panel, click Install Norton Ghost.
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Read the license agreement, and then click I accept the terms in the license
agreement.
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Do one of the following:
■ Click Install Now to begin the installation.
■ If you want to customize your settings, click Custom Install, select or
deselect the options you want installed, and then click Install Now.
Installation options include:
Installs the product user interface that is required for
interacting with the Norton Ghost Service.
User Interface
The primary service that is required to back up or recover
your computer.
Backup and
Recovery Service
Required for backing up directly to CD/DVD, and for creating
a customized Symantec Recovery Disk CD. A CD/DVD burner
is required to use this feature.
CD/DVD Support
Enables you to browse, mount, copy, verify, and restore files
and folders using recovery points.
Recovery Point
Browser
Keeps your Symantec software up-to-date with the latest
product updates.
LiveUpdate
Click this button if you want to install Norton Ghostto an
alternate location.
Change
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If a driver that is used on your computer is not available on the Symantec
Recovery Disk, you receive a notification message that includes the name of
the driver. Write down the name of the driver file, and then click OK to dismiss
the message.
Drivers are critical in the event that you need to use the Symantec Recovery
Disk CD to recover your system drive (the drive where your operating system
is installed).
See “About ensuring the recovery of your computer” on page 27.
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Installing Norton Ghost