Norton Ghost Backup Instructions

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Let me just start off by saying that, in order to be able to use Norton Ghost as it should be used, you have to partition your hard drive so that your operating system will be on a partition that is about 10 gigs. That will give you plenty of room for a normal install of Windows XP and quite a few programs including Office and many others. Try to keep the installed programs to about 5-6 gigs, no larger. Just install your most important programs that you cannot live without. Your next step should be to make sure all your programs save the data to another drive and NOT to the C: drive. This is because, if you have to do a restore of a Ghost and replace your present C: drive, you will lose anything that was not in your backup. You will also want to make sure your Outlook Express has its Store Folder in your Data folder on the other drive. If you set up your drives like this and you have to do a restore, all your data, including all your emails will be available, just like you had never done a restore.

I might also note that, you are not going to be able to make many Ghost backups if you are trying to make a backup of a 300 gig hard drive and you only have a C: drive and a CD drive called D:. You have to partition the hard drive. A good program for partitioning is PowerQuest's Partition Magic.

Making a Norton Ghost v.9 Full Backup

Norton Ghost Backup Instructions 1 Start Norton Ghost v.9
Switch to Advanced view.

Norton Ghost Backup Instructions 2 Highlight the drive. Usually C:

Under backup tasks, choose Create Backup Job

This will start the Norton Ghost Backup Job

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Choose Full Backups

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Now choose the drive that you want to back up.

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Now choose the Backup Location

You will probably want to make your backup as a "Local File" and not as a network file.

You can copy the Ghost image to your DVD disk later on if you want to.

Norton Ghost Backup Instructions location Browse to find the folder where you want to put the backup.
Next

Here are the settings that we would recommend that you should use:

Use standard compression
Verify
Divide the backup image, 4589mb if you are going to be writing it to a DVD. Leave the size alone if the image will be left on your hard drive.