Norton Ghost questions

[Bruck]

I have a win2k pc. I have 15gb filled on my hd. Can I use ghost to make an image of only certain parts of this drive? For example the entire OS, but none of the data, or just some of the data ....?

I am planning on making an image of my hd, then burning it to a dvd-r. How easy will it be for me to restore using this image?

For example, will I need to have the dvd-r in a drive that is locally attached to the pc itself? Or can I do a network restore using another pc on the network?(or maybe a mac on the network ?

 

[tcsenter]

Norton Ghost 2003 User Manuals and Start Guides

Norton Ghost 2002 User Manual

Using command line switches, you can exclude certain file types from being incorporated into the image. So if you had a ton of .MP3 or something that you didn't want in the image, you could have Ghost ignore them.

Also, using Ghost Explorer, you can browse a Ghost image file as though it were an actual drive and delete any files from the image. If you delete a lot of them from the image, you will probably want to recompile the image file using Ghost Explorer, which essentially defrags the image file and removes the free space created when you deleted files.

 

[Bruck]

After it defrags the image, It will make the free space dissapear?

I would do this to make the image smaller. ie: to fit on a dvd-r disc.

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: Bruck
After it defrags the image, It will make the free space dissapear?

I would do this to make the image smaller. ie: to fit on a dvd-r disc.

Ghost only incorporates file system slack, not free space. If your disk is highly fragmented at the time you create the image, recompiling the image may reduce the size of the image file.

Otherwise, there will not be free space in your image file, unless you delete a lot of files from the image using Ghost Explorer.