Symantec NORTON GHOST, User Manual

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About Norton Ghost
Personal Edition
Norton Ghost is the fast and reliable software solution to satisfy all your PC
disk cloning and copying needs: upgrading hard drives, backing up for
disaster recovery, or migrating from your old PC to a new PC.
Caution: Norton Ghost Personal Edition is a powerful utility program that
performs complex operations on your computer. It is recommended for
experienced and highly skilled PC users only.
Norton Ghost clones either complete disks or specified partitions:
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An entire disk can be either cloned directly from one disk to
another or saved into a Norton Ghost image file. The image file
can be used as a template to create copies of the original disk.
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The contents of a partition can be copied to another partition.
Selected partitions can be copied to an image file that is used as a
template to create copies of the original partitions.
When cloning complete hard drives, procedures such as FDISK and
FORMAT are a thing of the past. Norton Ghost dynamically partitions and
formats a target disk on the fly. The source and target disks can be different
sizes. Norton Ghost adjusts the position and size of the target partitions
automatically, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS partitions are expanded or
contracted to fit the target. The source and target disk can be on the same
computer, or the target disk can be on a different computer, providing the
two computers are connected through NetBIOS or the parallel ports.
Norton Ghost copies every required partition, regardless of type, from the
source (disk or image file) to the target. If the source and target disks are
identical in size and structure, Norton Ghost can perform a sector-by-sector
copy. Because this is seldom the case and does not allow the resizing of