Symantec Norton Ghost 2003 Bootable CD

Norton Ghost is a cloning or imaging utility that provides the ability to copy the entire contents of a disk or partition. The contents are copied either directly to another disk or partition, or they are saved as a file that can later be restored to a disk or partition.

Norton Ghost is typically used for one of the following purposes:
As a backup program for disaster recovery. If your disk or partition is no longer accessible due to corruption of the disk's system area or file system, and you previously created a disk image or partition image file, you can use that file to restore the disk or partition. If the disk or partition is physically damaged, you can use the image file to restore the disk or partition to a different hard disk.
As a backup program for file recovery. If you lose a file and do not have a file backup, and you previously created a disk image or partition image file, you can use Ghost Explorer to extract the file from the disk image or partition image.
As a means to copy a computer's operating system, programs, and data files to a new computer or to a new hard disk.

Norton Ghost differs from other types of backup programs in that it is designed to copy an entire disk or partition, rather than specific folders or files in those partitions. Ghost can copy a disk or partition as fast or faster than many backup programs that copy all the files from a disk or partition.

When you have Ghost create and save an image file, Ghost can save that image file directly to other devices such as a CD-R or CD-RW drive, a specific DVD drive, a Jaz or Zip disk, a SCSI DAT tape drive, a hard disk on the local computer, or to a hard disk on a remote computer. See the document Ghost compatibility for links to other documents that provide specific compatibility information for various hardware devices, operating systems, file systems, other programs, and so on.

Cloning requires restarting the computer
Because Ghost.exe works in a DOS environment, cloning requires that Ghost restart your computer into DOS. Ghost does this automatically.


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Note: The DOS executable file for Norton Ghost 2003 is Ghost.exe. In earlier consumer Ghost versions the DOS executable file is Ghostpe.exe.

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When you start the cloning operation from within Windows, Ghost automatically restarts your computer into a DOS environment, performs the cloning operation, and then restarts the computer into Windows. Ghost uses a Ghost Virtual Partition to create the DOS environment. The Ghost Virtual Partition is a file stored on the hard disk. When Ghost restarts the computer, the computer uses the information from that file to load DOS and other required files, and to run Ghost.exe.

You also have these other ways of running Ghost.exe:
Interactively, starting from Windows: When you choose the option "Run Ghost Interactively," Ghost automatically restarts your computer into a DOS environment and launches Ghost.exe. You can then choose the same options in Ghost.exe that you used for Ghostpe.exe in earlier versions of Norton Ghost.
Interactively, starting from DOS: When you start the computer from a bootable floppy disk that launches Ghost.exe, you can choose the same options in Ghost.exe that you used for Ghostpe.exe in earlier versions of Norton Ghost.
From a DOS command line: When you start the computer from a bootable floppy disk that does not launch Ghost.exe, you can run Ghost from a DOS command line with the same switches that you used for Ghostpe.exe in earlier versions of Norton Ghost. Alternatively, you can start the computer from a bootable floppy disk that does launch Ghost.exe, quit Ghost, and then run Ghost from a DOS command line with the same switches that you used for Ghostpe.exe in earlier versions of Norton Ghost.

Ghost provides the feature Ghost Boot Wizard to help you automatically create a bootable floppy disk for running Ghost from a DOS command line or starting from DOS.





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