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Norton Ghost - someone please explain this to me?

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Ok i'm not exactly sure as to the functionality that Ghost offers. So basically what i can do is create an image of a disk, and transfer that to another hard drive? I'm a little cornfused - someone break it down for me.
 
not really dude,

you got it all wrong!!

what Ghost really does it to haunt you hard disk and thus forcing the doppelganger of all your data to move to another partition.
hence you got your harddisk image that you can exorcist by burning it to a CD as back up.

exorcising your main partition later will be a b*tch. You need to get the Norton Holy Water Kit to clean it up later.

🙂🙂🙂🙂

p/s: someone will come along to straight thing up. 🙂

Cheers.
 
Pretty much.
What it does is create an "image" of the drive or partition so you can save it and not have to reinstall. Best used with the same pc, or another pc with same hardware. Or very similar hardware.
 
I got some first hand experience for you:

1. I am a technician at a law firm and my manager and I are the only 2 technical people around.
2. We use Norton Ghost to ghost the hardrive of computers to create an image.
3. The computers have to be the same motherboard in order to create flawless images.
4. On the other computers we want to have the same image, we ghost it on there.

The reason we do that is because installing software on a computer is easy but making sure it is flawless is hard. Doing it for 15 computers is too much work and time. Therefore we make ghost images of a computer that is working correctly and just ghost the other computers to save time.

 
1. make sure boot partition is small ~5gb and clean of games etc
2. ghost the partition compressed and your done.
3. restore image if o/s needs to revert back to an older state
4. search anandtech forums b4 asking something. this question has been asked many times.
 
It can make a clone of your hard drive to another hard drive, a partition or now even a file. I use it for transferring the contents of an old, too small hard drive, to a new larger one. It should be used for backing up your drive too. I believe the newer versions can do incremental backups to a file, but I'm not sure. Check this site out for comprehensive info.
 
Ghost has a problem with datasets over 8GB..

it will do it, but later when you restore it and try a scandisk or a defrag it wont work.. you are going to have use a 3rd party program to do that.

so make sure its smaller than 8Gb of data on teh drive. I dont know if they fixed the problem as yet.. I know ghost 6 has the problem.

 
"...search anandtech forums b4 asking something. this question has been asked many times."

Yeah, you're taking up valuable space that could be better used to determine what the best brand of corn flakes are, or whether the xbox, PS2 or cube is the best. Not to mention what we ate for breakfast lunch, dinner, Coke or Pepsi... 😕
 
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