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Nortons Ghost Act1
How many times have you installed your system? Isn`t it a pain in the arse when you get those blue screen errors and cant find out what the hell the problem is. The solution is in the back of your mind but you don't want to listen to it. FORMAT, FORMAT, NNNooooooo please god no. I`m afraid so, your system has so many problems with it its the only thing to do. The trouble is that its a time consuming / boring process and nobody likes to take a few hours to re-install there complete system. Fortunately there is a perfect answer, Nortons Ghost (NG). I have look for programs that restore my complete system but most of the programs out there only seem to backup systems, not totally restore them. This little gem does restore your system complete, and I do mean complete. The version that I am using for this is from the Nortons SystemWorks program 2001. You can also use Nortons SystemWorks2000 version of Ghost but, on that version you need to use the Tab key on your keyboard to move around the Dos based program, as it hasn`t any mouse drivers installed. System2001 makes a boot diskette form Windows which boots your machine from Dos. ie when you first start it. When your PC boots from this diskette you may get some errors. Don't be worried about this, these are only errors you get if you do not have a external CDRom drive connected to your computer. What this boot diskette does is install the keyboard drivers, mouse drivers, CDRom drivers, (be that IDE(internal)or External) and finally the Ghost program itself. The first screen you will see is the example below.
Now we need to make a complete image of your system, but please bare in mind that if your system has alot a additional software you will need to have a larger amount of hard drive space to store the image on. A bare system image takes up about 300meg fully compressed. Now to make an image of your system goto Local, --> Disk,--> then To Image.
Example A:
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After you have release the mouse button on the To Image menu a second screen will appear. See example B. |
Example B:
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What this menu will display is your complete hard drive partition setup. What we want to make an image of is your system, ie Windows. Select Drive 1, which is the first partition on your hard drive. Next window will be Example C. |
Example C:
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This window asks you where you want to Save the image of your system. (the file name i.e "system") Please note If you only have one partition on your hard drive and you are going to save the image anywhere on the C: drive, I would suggest you burn a copy of the image after its done to a CDRom. Because it cannot install from itself if its removing itself at the same time.....
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Example D:
When you decide where you want to save the image click on the Save button. A small box will appear asking you do you want to add compression to the file. The more compression the less space the file take up on your HD. Sorry but I cant show you that part as I need to be in Dos, and the program I am using to get theses screen shots doesn't work in Dos.
Bobby-Dee Feb/16/2001
