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1. Flag exit Causes Norton Ghost to exit to DOS after operation completion By default Norton Ghost prompts the user to restart or exit when the operation has finished For more information see rb on page 85 Shows the Norton Ghost command line switch Help page Image all The image all switch forces Norton Ghost to perform a sector by sector copy of all partitions When copying a partition from a disk to an image file or to another disk Norton Ghost examines the source partition and decides whether to copy just the files and directory structure or to do a sector by sector copy If it understands the internal format of the partition it defaults to copying the files and directory structure Generally this is the best option However if a disk has been set up with special hidden security files that are in specific positions on the partition the only way to reproduce them accurately on the target partition is through a sector by sector copy If you use this switch to create an image of a dynamic disk then the image must be loaded to a disk with identical geometry Forces a sector by sector copy of Linux partitions Other partitions are copied as normal Image boot Copies the entire boot track including the boot sector when creating a disk image file or copying disk to disk Use this switch when installed applications such as boot time utilities use the boot track to store information By default Norton Ghost copies only the bo
2. When GDisk changes the state of Boot ini a copy of the current Boot ini is created The copy is named either C boot_gdisk32_copy ini or C boot ini_gdisk32_copy Specifying the boot ini path and file name The inifile switch is common to all operations performed with the bootini switch inifile lets you specify the full path and file name of the current Windows NT 2000 Boot ini file This lets you locate Boot ini if it is not on the C drive The default value for this switch is C boot ini Displaying the list of current boot entries 68 Use the bootini switch to display the existing boot menu for the current Windows NT 2000 operating system The syntax for this command is as follows gdisk32 bootini inifile filename Modify the Windows NT 2000 boot menu Adding an entry to Boot ini There are two types of entries that can be added to a Boot ini file m Start another installation of Windows NT 2000 that resides on a different partition m Start a nonWindows NT 2000 operating system that resides on a different partition GDisk does not add an entry to Boot ini if m An entry with the description already exists in Boot ini case insensitive m The referenced partition is of type Extended m The referenced partition is hidden The following table describes the function of each switch for both types of entries Switch Explanation bootini Modifies Boot ini add Creates a new entry in
3. common Factors influencing this range are m Using up to date drivers m LAN traffic m Choice of network hubs or switches including brand and model Compression On a 100 MB s ethernet network it is possible to achieve 80 300 MB minute under ideal conditions This speed is influenced by computer hardware and LAN performance Greater performance is achieved with state of the art computers NICs and hard disks Image files and CRC32 Image files and CRC32 Cyclic Redundancy Checking CRC is a data error checking technique CRC ensures that the original data written to the image file is the same as the data in the image file The 32 value in CRC32 indicates that the CRC technique uses a 32 bit value to store error checking information The use of CRC32 increases detection of errors in the image file When image files are created CRC32 details are embedded into the file to ensure that image file corruption is detected when it is being loaded to disk CRC32 is currently included on a file by file basis with FAT and Linux Ext2 partitions and on an MFT table basis for NTFS partitions In addition to image file error detection the CRC values are used to verify that image files and partitions or disks are identical This offers an additional detection method against bad sector writes and other drive anomalies that may be missed during normal imaging checks A text file containing CRC values and associated file attributes can be gen
4. fatlimit fcr 78 Shows diagnostics This is useful for Technical Support purposes For each disk present on the computer the physical attributes such as drive number cylinders heads sectors per track and total sectors appear The diagnostics may be redirected to a file and given to Technical Support to assist with problem solving Example ghostpe exe di gt diag txt outputs disk diagnostics to the file Diag txt Specifies the number of hard drives present Valid numbers are between 1 and 8 This may help when the BIOS does not report the number of drives correctly Lets Norton Ghost convert all FAT16 volumes to FAT32 volumes when the destination partition is larger than 256 MB in size Ensure that the installed operating systems requiring access to the volumes that will be converted support FAT32 Lets Norton Ghost resize FAT16 partitions to be greater than 2047 MB using 64 K clusters This is only supported by Windows NT and Windows 2000 Do not use on computers with other operating systems Limits the size of FAT16 partitions to 2047 MB Useful when Windows NT FAT16 partitions are present on the disk and 64 K clusters are not wanted Creates a CRC32 file called Ghost crc while creating an image file For more information see CRC32 on page 77 fdsp fdsz femax ffx finger fis Preserves the signature bytes on the destination disk when performing a disk to disk or image to disk clon
5. in the current directory In addition the default verification list file is Ghost ls Create a CRC32 file called Ghost crc while making an image file Create a CRC32 file while making an image file with a different name Create a list of files and CRC32 values for a disk Verify the list against an image file Verify a partition in an image file with multiple partitions Create an ASCII CRC32 file from the primary hard drive Create an ASCII CRC32 file Verify the contents of the primary disk against a CRC32 file 95 Command line switches Switch Function ghostpe exe CRC32 action verify src Verify the contents of the primary 1 crcfile myfile txt vlist myfile out disk against a CRC32 file Same as previous but specifies the disk CRC file and list file This example uses disk 1 as the source drive Myfile txt as the ASCII CRC22 file and Myfile out as the verification list file ghostpe exe CRC32 action verify src Verify the contents of the primary 1 crcfile myfile txt vlist myfile out vexcept disk against a CRC32 file myfile exc Same as above with the inclusion of the EXCEPTION argument that excludes compared files based upon its entries vexcept filename 96 Specifies files that are not checked with CRC This is normally used to exclude files that are always changed on start up A sample exception file follows ghost exclusion list PERSONAL PHONE partition 1 WIND
6. 115 Service and support solutions Support for old and discontinued versions When a new version of this software is released registered users will receive upgrade information in the mail Telephone support will be provided for the old version for up to twelve months after the release of the new version Technical information may still be available through the Service amp Support Web site http service symantec com When Symantec announces that a product will no longer be marketed or sold telephone support will be discontinued 60 days later Support will be available for discontinued products from the Service amp Support Web site only Customer service Access customer service options through the Service amp Support Web site at http service symantec com From this site you can receive assistance with non technical questions and for information on how to do the following m Subscribe to the Symantec Support Solution of your choice m Obtain product literature or trialware Locate resellers and consultants in your area m Replace missing or defective CD ROMS disks manuals and so on Update your product registration with address or name changes m Get order return or rebate status information m Access customer service FAQs m Post a question to a Customer Service representative For upgrade orders visit the online upgrade center at http www symantecstore com Worldwide service and support 116 Te
7. Boot ini d diskno Physical fixed disk from 1 through 8 p partno Number of the partition from which to boot desc description inifile filename bsectfile filename winnt sysfolder folder t Description to appear in the NT boot loader menu The full path and file name for Boot ini The default value is C boot ini Boot sector file to create For example C bsect dat Adds an entry to start Windows NT 2000 operating system System folder on the Windows NT 2000 operating system from which to start The default value is Winnt Restart after the execution of the command 69 Managing partitions using GDisk Adding an entry for starting Windows NT 2000 The syntax for this command is as follows gdisk32 bootini add d diskno p partno desc description winnt sysfolder folder inifile filename r This entry uses the Advanced RISC Computing ARC style path to describe the relative disk location for the entry The entry has the following format lt ARC style path gt lt system folder gt description For example multi O disk O rdisk O partition 1 winnt Boot NT System For more information see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q102873 BOOT INI and ARC Path Naming Conventions and Usage Note the following m GDisk uses only MULTICX syntax when describing ARC style paths as opposed to SCSICX m GDisk always uses multi O disk O as the beginning of the ARC style p
8. You can change the size of any target FAT NTFS or Linux Ext2 partition by entering the new size in megabytes m You cannot enter a value that exceeds the available space is beyond the file system s limitations or is not large enough to contain the data held in the source partition Click OK Do one of the following m Click Yes to proceed with the disk cloning Norton Ghost creates the destination drive using the source image file drive details If you need to abort the process press Ctrl C but be aware that this leaves the destination drive in an unknown state Warning Only click Yes if you are sure that you want to proceed The destination drive is completely overwritten with no chance of recovering any data m Click No to return to the menu If spanning is enabled do one of the following m Click OK to continue on the same form of media a Click Filename to restore from a different location then type the location and file name of the image file span Restart the computer when the disk image load is complete Run Symantec Disk Doctor ScanDisk or a similar utility to verify the integrity of the destination drive Cloning partitions Cloning partitions You access partition cloning procedures from the main menu You can select to transfer with one of the following methods Local LPT gt Master USB gt Master TCP IP gt Master Cloning from partition to partition You can directly clone from one
9. a destination for the clone switch DST defines the destination location for the operation DST Idisk file tape cdwriter Switch Destination Explanation disk file tape cdwriter drive filename MTx CDx The destination disk drive number For example DST 2 A partition on a drive can also be specified For example DST 2 1 To create a new partition type a destination partition one greater than the existing number of partitions if there is enough free space The destination image file name For example DST g destination gho The tape drive number Numbers start at 0 For example DST MTO The CD writer drive number Numbers start at 1 For example DST CD1 91 Command line switches Setting a destination size for the clone switch 92 SZE sets the size of the destination partitions for either a disk load or disk copy operation This is optional Multiple partition size switches are supported SZE E F L n xxxxM mmP F V Switch Explanation n xxxxM n mmP n F Indicates that the nth destination partition is to have a size of xxxxMB for example SZE2 800M indicates partition two is to have 800 MB Indicates that the nth destination partition is to have a size of mm percent of the target disk Due to partition size rounding and alignment issues 100 physical use of disk space may not be possible Indicates that the nth destination par
10. and is the equivalent of selecting USB Master from the main menu For more information see Peer to peer connections on page 99 USB slave mode This switch causes Norton Ghost to automatically go into USB slave mode and is the equivalent of selecting USB Slave from the main menu For more information see Peer to peer connections on page 99 If this switch is set Norton Ghost uses the disk s verify command to check every sector on the disk before it is written This option may slow Norton Ghost operation substantially Shows the version number of Norton Ghost Tests the version of Norton Ghost If Norton Ghost is older than the specified version it aborts and exits otherwise it proceeds as normal The version number should be specified without the period For example Norton Ghost 6 5 is ver 650 Compresses when saving a disk or partition to an image file The greater the compression the slower the transmission m zor z1 low compression fast transmission m z2 high compression medium transmission m z3 through z9 higher compression slower transmission Clone switch syntax Clone switch syntax The syntax for the clone switch is clone MODE operation SRC source DST destination SZE size SZE size Defining the type of clone command MODE defines the type of clone command MODE tcopy load dump pcopy pload pdump Switch Action copy load dump
11. command is one of the following m GDisk gdisk disk lact p partn no m GDisk32 gdisk32 disk lact p partn no Switch Explanation disk act act p partn no Represents the physical fixed disk 1 to 8 Activates a partition Deactivates a partition Indicates the partition to activate or deactivate Only primary partitions can be activated Use the number reported by GDisk in standard display mode not using lba or raw for partn no Hide or unhide a partition You can hide a partition so that a user cannot see it Depending on the version of GDisk that you require the syntax for this command is one of the following m GDisk gdisk disk lhide p partn no m GDisk32 gdisk32 disk hide p partn no Switch Explanation disk hide hide p partn no Represents the physical fixed disk 1 to 8 Hides a partition Unhides a partition Indicates the partition to hide or unhide Use the number reported by GDisk in standard display mode not using lba or raw for partn no 67 Managing partitions using GDisk Modify the Windows NT 2000 boot menu The bootini switch lets you make a modification to a Windows NT 2000 boot menu The following modifications are supported m Displaying a list of current boot entries m Adding an entry to Boot ini m Removing an entry from Boot ini m Setting the default boot option and timeout This switch is operational with GDisk32 only
12. computer when the partition copy is complete Run Symantec Disk Doctor ScanDisk or a similar utility to verify the integrity of the destination partition 37 Cloning disks and partitions Saving an image file to a CD R RW You can save an image file directly to a CD R or CD RW You can also make the CD bootable For more information see Image files and CD writers on page 47 To save an image file to a bootable CD R RW you must do the following m Create Ghost boot disks m Start your computer m Create and save the image file When writing an image file directly to a CD R RW note the following m The CD R RW drive must be compatible with Norton Ghost For more information see Image files and CD writers on page 47 m Norton Ghost automatically spans CD R RW disks if necessary You do not need to use a spanning switch on the command line Create Ghost boot disks To write an image file directly to a CD you must have a boot disk with which to start the computer In the Ghost Boot Wizard create a boot disk using the Boot Disk with CD R RW LPT and USB Support option This creates a boot disk that contains the Ghost executable and DOS system files For more information see Standard boot disks with the option of LPT and USB support on page 16 To make the CD bootable you must have a second boot disk This boot disk is created in the Ghost Boot Wizard using the CD ROM Boot Disk option This option
13. copies the source disk to the destination If you need to abort the process press Ctrl C but be aware that this leaves the destination disk in an unknown state Warning Only click Yes if you are sure that you want to proceed The destination drive is overwritten with no chance of recovering any data m Click No to return to the menu 10 Restart the computer Warning You should remove the second hard drive before you restart your computer If you leave the second drive in the computer damage can occur to both of the bootable operating systems 11 Run Symantec Disk Doctor ScanDisk or a similar utility to verify the integrity of the destination disk Cloning a disk to an image file You can copy an image file to another disk or use the image file as a backup file When using peer to peer connections the image file is created on the slave computer If you write the image file to a CD write to a bootable CD If a boot disk is placed in the floppy drive before the cloning session begins Norton Ghost copies the system files from the boot disk onto the CD 29 Cloning disks and partitions 30 To clone a disk to an image file On the Norton Ghost main menu click Local gt Disk gt To Image Norton Ghost In the Source Drive dialog box select the source drive The Source Drive dialog box shows details of every disk that Norton Ghost finds on the local computer In the File Locator dialog box type
14. creates a boot disk that contains the CD R RW driver files For more information see Boot disks with CD ROM support on page 19 Start your computer Insert the first boot disk you created into the computer s floppy disk drive and restart the computer 38 Adding switches to your cloning task Create and save the image file Create an image of the computer choosing the CD R RW drive as the destination drive For more information see Cloning a disk to an image file on page 29 Norton Ghost lets you make the CD bootable during the creation of the image file To make the CD bootable follow the on screen instructions When prompted for the required files insert the second boot disk that you created using the Ghost Boot Wizard into the computer s floppy disk drive Adding switches to your cloning task When defining a cloning task you can include a number of options or switches that are usually entered via the command line To add switches to your cloning task 1 On the main menu click Options 2 On the tabs select the options to include in your current cloning task Tab Command line options Span CRC FAT 32 64 Misc Image Tape HDD access Security span auto cns crcignore fcr 32 f64 fatlimit fro rb fx ia ib id tapebuffered plus options to make safe unbuffer and eject the tape ffx fnx ffi fni ffs fns pwd locktype type F
15. disk as described in the documentation for reapplying the hard drive image that was created for disaster recovery purposes to the hard drive on that same computer iv use the Software to clone a hard drive from that same computer to a replacement computer in the manner described in the software documentation and to use the Software on the replacement computer provided that the Software has been removed from the original computer v make one copy of the Software for archival purposes or copy the Software onto the hard disk of your computer and retain the original for archival purposes vi use the Software on a network provided that you have a licensed copy of the Software for each computer that can access the Software over that network vii after written notice to Symantec transfer the Software on a permanent basis to another person or entity provided that you retain no copies of the Software and the transferee agrees to the terms of this agreement You may not G use the Software commercially or non commercially for the purpose of creating multiple computers or hard drives not connected to the original computer with similar or identical configurations to that of the original computer or hard drive Gi copy the documentation which accompanies the Software Gii sublicense rent or lease any portion of the Software iv reverse engineer decompile disassemble modify translate make any attempt to discover the
16. disk drive support for IDE and SCSI hard drives disks that exceed the 1024 Cylinder BIOS limitation which translates to a capacity greater than 7 8 GB GDisk can directly access hard disks through the IDE controller or ASPI interface provided by an ASPI driver Take care when creating partitions for operating systems with inherent partition size limitations Remember the following information when creating partitions for use in Windows 95 98 m On systems with a PC BIOS that does not support interrupt 13h extended disk services take care to ensure that the partitions created can be used as intended When a primary partition or extended partition starts or ends past the 7 8 GB limit of the hard drive it is not accessible on such systems in Windows or in DOS only mode This affects all logical partitions contained within an extended partition starting or ending past the limit Remember the following information when you create partitions for use in Windows NT m According to the Microsoft Support Knowledgebase Windows NT NTFS bootable partitions cannot exceed 7 8 GB 8 455 716 864 bytes This information is detailed in the Windows Knowledgebase Article Windows NT Boot Process and Hard Disk Constraints Article ID Q114841 Nonbootable NTFS partitions do not have this size limitation a NT cannot start from partitions that start or end over the 1024 cylinder boundary If this condition exists NT reports a Boot Record Signatur
17. is used for example grub or the above conditions are not met Norton Ghost clones the system but the new disk probably won t boot afterwards It should be started from a floppy disk or CD and the boot loader should be reinstalled by running sbin lilo or an equivalent Always have a boot disk available in case of problems starting a Linux system after cloning Norton Ghost utility support 106 Ghost Explorer substantially supports ext2 file systems within image files including the restoration deletion and addition of files within these file systems Problems arise when files are manipulated that have names that are illegal on Windows Ghost Explorer cannot manipulate device files or symbolic links Sparse files are expanded on restoration and hard links are broken GDisk does not create any Linux file systems or recognize any partitions within a Linux extended partition Troubleshooting A Norton Ghost error message consists of an error number a description and possibly a suggestion to remedy the problem Make sure that you are running the latest version of Ghost as many errors have been fixed A Ghosterr txt file is generated when an abort error occurs For more information see Diagnostics on page 111 Further information is available on the Norton Ghost Technical Support Web site For more information see Service and support solutions on page 115 Error code Description 10098 10010 10
18. mode is reset to the default ECP EPP High Speed If you have multiple parallel ports and want to connect via any port other than the default LPT1 use the LPT port option to specify the port into which your cable is plugged If you cannot get a connection with the default LPT port you can connect to a specific port Creating boot disks and boot images To create a standard boot disk or with support for LPT and USB cables 1 10 11 12 13 14 In the Ghost Boot Wizard window click Boot Disk with CD R RW LPT and USB Support Click Next Do one or more of the following m Check USB support to add USB support to the boot disk m Check LPT support to add LPT support to the boot disk m Uncheck to clear USB support and LPT support to create a boot disk that runs Norton Ghost on a single computer m Click Advanced to change the LPT mode or port m Click Include Adaptec SCSI drivers to add drivers to support Adaptec SCSI drivers to the boot disk These drivers are required to write an image directly to a SCSI CDR that is supported by Norton Ghost Click Next Select one of the following m Use PC DOS Include PC DOS on the boot disk m Use MS DOS Include MS DOS on the boot disk For more information see Selecting a version of DOS on page 24 Click Next Type the correct path in the GhostPE exe field if the executable has been moved or you want to use a different version of Norton Ghost The default pat
19. of the full capacity of the disk s Prevents GDisk from using direct SCSI disk access support This may result in GDisk not being aware of the full capacity of the disk y Suppresses prompting to confirm the operation If you do not use this switch you are not necessarily prompted before a partition is deleted or another possibly destructive operation is executed sure Suppresses prompting to confirm the operation Same functionality as y t Causes GDisk to restart the computer if the operation is successful Creating a partition 60 The create switch creates a partition of the specified type using the largest block of unused disk space The partition is not formatted during the operation unless the for switch is used You cannot create a dynamic disk partition Depending on the version of GDisk that you require the syntax for this command is one of the following m GDisk gdisk disk cre pri ext log sz MB pcenttp end for q v labell 32 ntfat16 m GDisk32 gdisk32 disk cre pri ext log sz MB pcent p end for q v labell 32 ntfat16 Switch Explanation disk Represents the physical fixed disk 1 to 8 cre Creates a DOS partition or logical DOS drive pri Creates a primary DOS partition Creating a partition Switch Explanation ext Creates an extended DOS partition log Creates a logical DOS drive in the extended DOS partiti
20. partition to another To clone from partition to partition 1 A OO N On the main menu click Local gt Partition gt To Partition In the License field type your license number Click OK In the Source Drive dialog box select the source drive The Source Drive dialog box shows details of every drive that Norton Ghost finds on the local computer In the Source Partition dialog box select the source partition The Source Partition dialog box shows the details of all of the partitions on the selected source drive In the Destination Drive dialog box select the destination drive The Destination Drive dialog box shows the details of every disk that Norton Ghost finds on the destination computer For peer to peer connections the slave computer is the destination In the Destination Partition dialog box select the destination partition Select an existing partition carefully as this is the partition that is overwritten The Destination Partition dialog box shows the details of all of the partitions on the selected destination drive If this is a local partition to partition copy then the source partition is unavailable for selection However you can create a new partition if space is available If you create a new partition it can be resized during the cloning operation Click OK 33 Cloning disks and partitions 9 When the final Proceed with Partition Copy question appears ensure that the correct
21. pcopy pload pdump Disk to disk copy File to disk load Disk to file dump Partition to partition copy File to partition load Partition to file dump allows multipart Ghost dump selection for file 89 Command line switches Cloning combination options This table illustrates the possible cloning operations that you can perform Mode Source Destination copy disk disk load file disk tape dump disk file tape CD writer pcopy disk partition disk partition pload file partition disk partition tape partition pdump disk partition partition partition file tape You can specify more than one E Wte partition Setting a source for the clone switch SRC defines the source for the operation selected by the clone mode option SRC disk file tape Switch Source Explanation disk drive number Source disk drive number Numbers start at 1 For example SRC 1 A partition on a drive can also be specified Numbers start at 1 For example SRC 1 2 90 Clone switch syntax Switch Source Explanation file tape filename MTx The source image file name For example SRC g source gho A partition in an image file can also be specified For example SRC g source gho 2 Files can also be read from a CD ROM drive The tape drive number Numbers start at 0 For example SRC MTO A partition on a tape can also be specified For example SRC MT0 3 Setting
22. receive_mode 5 set receive mode The keywords in the Wattcp cfg configuration file are as follows Keyword Description IP Specifies the IP address of the local computer Each computer must have a unique IP address Norton Ghost supports the use of DHCP and BOOTP servers and defaults to using them when the IP address is left blank or is invalid DHCP and BOOTP provide automatic assignment of IP addresses to computers This lets identical boot disks be used on computers with similar network cards Example IP 192 168 100 10 Netmask Specifies the network IP subnet mask Example NETMASK 255 255 255 0 109 The Wattcp cfg network configuration file 110 Keyword Description Gateway Specifies the IP address of the gateway This option is required optional when routers are present on the network and when participating computers are located on different subnets Example GATEWAY 192 168 100 1 Bootpto Overrides the time out value in seconds for BOOTP DHCP optional Receive_Mode Ethernet only Example BOOTPTO 60 Overrides the automatically configured packet driver mode used by Norton Ghost The modes in order of preference are 4 5 and 6 The default mode is 4 APPEND Diagnostics This appendix describes the diagnostics reports that Norton Ghost can produce and some network testing techniques that may be useful for diagnostics Hard drive detection and diagnostic information Norton G
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24. status raw lba ser Switch Explanation disk Represents the physical fixed disk 1 to 8 taw Shows the contents of the partition table in CHS form if used with the disk switch Performing multiple GDisk operations using batch mode Switch Explanation lba Shows the contents of the partition table in logical block form if used with the disk switch ser Shows the serial number of the disk Performing multiple GDisk operations using batch mode Use the batch mode switch batch to perform multiple GDisk operations with a single command Using the batch switch lets you avoid loading GDisk from the boot disk each time Batch commands can either be supplied interactively at a prompt or in a pre prepared text file If the name of a text file is supplied along with the batch mode switch GDisk opens the file and executes the commands within it until all commands have been executed or one of the commands encounters an error Note To use the Windows version of GDisk in the example commands replace gdisk with gdisk32 For example C gt gdisk batch cmds gg If the batch mode switch is supplied without a file name GDisk prompts for the commands to execute Command line arguments that apply to all of the batch commands can be specified on the original command line along with the batch mode switch The lines found in the batch file or typed at the prompt are appended to the already partially
25. the image file destination and name The image file may reside on a local drive but not the one from which it is being copied Local drives include writable CD tape ZIP JAZ and LS120 Superdisk drives In the Image file description dialog box type a description of the image file You can modify this description in Ghost Explorer Click Save When the Compress Image File question appears do one of the following m Click No for no compression high speed m Click Fast for low compression medium speed Click High for high compression slower speed For more information see Image files and compression on page 42 Cloning disks 10 If spanning is enabled click Yes and type the location of the next span of the image file For more information see Image files and volume spanning on page 43 When the Proceed with Image File Creation question appears check the details and ensure that the correct options have been selected Do one of the following m Click Yes to proceed with the image file creation The system performs an integrity check of the file structure on the source disk and then copies the source disk to the destination image file If you need to abort the process press Ctrl C but be aware that this leaves the destination image file in an unknown state m Click No to return to the menu On the main menu click Check gt Image File to verify the integrity of the image fi
26. to media used m LG CED 8080B Pacific Digital Mitsumi CR 480TE m Plextor PX 8432 PX R412 PX R820 PX W124 PX W4220 PX W8220 m Que PX W8432Ti m Ricoh MP9060A m Smart and Friendly 8220 Smart and Friendly 2224 sensitive to media used Sony CRX140E CRX145 m TDK VeloCD m TEAC CDR 585 8 24 m Yamaha 6416S 8424SZ CRW8424E Additional drive support might be available Check the Norton Ghost product information on the Symantec Web site for a list of currently supported devices Use blank CD R or unformatted CD RW media with Norton Ghost When creating an image on CD you can make the CD bootable You need an appropriate boot disk with CD drivers and MSCDEX loaded for this option The Ghost Boot Wizard can create a suitable boot disk for you GoBack and Norton Ghost Start from a disk with appropriate drivers and MSCDEX loaded Norton Ghost restores images from CD as it does from other media so the CD reader must have a CD drive letter For more information see Saving an image file to a CD R RW on page 38 GoBack and Norton Ghost If GoBack is installed on your computer then you cannot directly create image files or restore your computer To run Norton Ghost with GoBack do one of the following Uninstall GoBack and then run Norton Ghost as usual to take an image or restore a computer To take an image of your computer in the GoBack Boot Screen select the option to start your computer from a fl
27. 014 11000 19913 The partition number must be included in the command line switches For more information see Command line switches on page 75 Incorrect path file syntax Ensure that the path and file name are correct Also make sure that you have the proper user rights to read or create the image file Can t find the BOOTP DHCP server Ensure that the computer is connected to the network and that a BOOTP or DHCP server is set up for this subnet 107 Troubleshooting 108 Error code Description 19916 Duplicate IP address detected An IP address has been allocated that is already in use CDR101 Not A system error message This error is not caused by Norton ready reading drive X Abort Retry Fail Ghost It is caused by malfunctioning hardware or software configurations The image file on the CD is not readable To verify this go into DOS and copy the image file off of the CD ROM using copy verification A P P E N D The Wattcp cfg network configuration file The Wattcp cfg configuration file contains the TCP IP networking configuration details for Norton Ghost The Wattcp cfg file specifies the IP address and the subnet mask of the computer and lets you set other optional network parameters The file should be located in the current directory when Ghostpe exe is started Comments in the file start with a semicolon Options are set using the format option value For example
28. 1 KB 2 KB or 4 KB block sizes Other file systems for example reiserfs are cloned on a sector by sector basis and cannot be resized during cloning Linux systems that use LILO as their boot loader in the MBR or in the active ext2 partition are supported with some exceptions Any references to a disk other than the first hard disk in the system dev hda or dev sda are not supported The boot and root file systems must be on the first hard disk boot can be a directory within the root file system Norton Ghost supports type 0 and type 1 Linux swap file systems type 0x82 105 Cloning with Linux Norton Ghost partially supports Linux extended partitions type 0x85 It clones file systems inside these extended partitions but restores them as DOS extended partitions This is not known to cause problems with Linux systems after cloning Position of disk Linux is sensitive to the position of the disk in hardware A system running on the primary master disk does not run if the disk is mounted as the primary slave or as the secondary master Norton Ghost does not resolve this issue Boot configuration Norton Ghost uses the file etc lilo conf to determine the boot configuration If this file does not match the boot configuration Norton Ghost may be unable to patch LILO during cloning It does not support the default keyword in Lilo conf so the first target specified should be the default target If a different boot loader
29. 5 50 To a CD R RW 38 split x switch 86 src switch 90 Switches 39 sze switch 92 T Tape drives 45 tapebuffered switch 86 tapeeject switch 87 tapesafe switch 87 tapesize switch 87 tapespeed x switch 87 tapeunbuffered switch 87 TCP IP 100 tcpm switch 87 tcps switch 87 Technical Support 115 U Uninstalling 14 Updating Norton Ghost 14 USB port 100 Support 18 usb switch 88 y vdw switch 88 ver switch 88 ver value switch 88 vexcept switch 96 W Windows 2000 50 Boot menu 68 Running Ghost inside 26 Wiping Disks 65 Partitions 65 Writing to a CD R RW disk 38 47 Z z switch 88 124 Search the online help index for more information
30. 64 KB cluster FAT16 is allowed This limits primary and logical partitions to 4097 MB Partitions over 16 MB are formatted as FAT16 Windows 9x and DOS systems are unable to access partitions created with this switch and that are over 2048 MB 61 Managing partitions using GDisk Reinitializing the Master Boot Record Showing 62 Use the mbr switch to rewrite the boot code in the Master Boot Record MBR You may need to reinitialize the MBR to eliminate a boot sector virus residing there You can also use the mbr switch with the wipe option to delete a dynamic disk Note This switch must be used when deleting Linux partitions if LILO resides in the MBR Depending on the version of GDisk that you require the syntax for this command is one of the following m GDisk gdisk disk mbr wipe m GDisk32 gdisk32 disk mbr wipe Switch Explanation disk Represents the physical fixed disk 1 to 8 mbr Reinitializes the boot code in the Master Boot Record wipe Deletes the partition on the disk information about disks The status switch shows information about the fixed disks and partitions on a disk including the model of the disk You must specify the disk number to get information about the partitions on a disk Depending on the version of GDisk that you require the syntax for this command is one of the following m GDisk gdisk disk status raw Iba ser m GDisk32 gdisk32 disk
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33. Corp lt Back Next gt Cancel Help Norton Ghost executable The Norton Ghost executable makes disk cloning possible Because the executable is small with minimal conventional memory requirements it can be run easily from a DOS boot disk or hard drive Norton Ghost can restore a computer from an image file containing both Windows 98 and the full installation of Office 97 in about five minutes Norton Ghost can make complete backups of disks or partitions copying system files that other backup utilities miss This makes it a useful tool for disaster recovery operations 11 About Norton Ghost Ghost Explorer GDisk Ghost Explorer is a Windows application that lets you view directories and files in an image file and then add recover and delete individual directories and files from an image file A F16 F32 gho Read Only Ghost Explorer Of x File Edit View Help C AFI6 F32 gho A m EES Fati6 MS DOS 6 A A dos dos 24a5 sn1 50fb sn2 autoexec bat B Fat32 extd WIN98_F32 net E recycled O a o command com config sys dos6_f16 edit com a 5 gdisk exe ghost err ghost exe io sys Cl label exe msdos sys wina20 386 gt For Help press F1 Complete NUM GDisk is a complete replacement for the FDISK and FORMAT utilities that allows m FAT file system formatting m Better disk space utilization m Batch mode operation m Hiding and unhiding of partitions
34. D Appendix E Appendix F Appendix G Setting up the hardware and transfer methods PEEI 16 PEEr CONNECUONS eia a Sloe RRS ade vay dled Meth toy 99 LPT Or USB Connections arge naa A AAA 100 TCP IP CONNECONS na rye EEE AAN 100 SCSI ta Pe ANVE a ices En A A AON 100 Removable media svi escctiaks eee eh els ea ee ees 101 CDROM USA SE An cued ass AT E sh nea aae sot Sue gensubuwenttd ode sat A e AA 101 Lateral dive Sera nots oent te Sieh widen eee Greens eh want ad ese tes 101 EDUCA party VICE 0 sates dec wae n a a TRAO E 101 USB and DirectParallel Cables Parallel Technologies cables 0 cccccccccceeceeteeeenseeeeteeetseeeeteeeenaes 103 Other USB Cables css yadee cactus eos oe Gave eee ates eta ots bedoede ss 104 Cloning with Linux Supported configurations oo ieee A a a 105 POSitION OF diSkKe sets ites hes S ENN N G 106 BOoticOnfiguratiOn se A E dasaand R 106 Norton Ghost utility support oo ee a oa eda R EE 106 Troubleshooting The Wattcp cfg network configuration file Diagnostics Hard drive detection and diagnostic information eee 111 Norton Ghost abort error file Ghosterr txt eecscccccccecses 111 Listing hard disk geometry diagnostics ccecce 112 Creating a full diagnostic statistics dump summaty 112 Testing TCP IP functionality oo eccceeeeeteeeeeetestteenieenteesteeeneees 112 Pinging a local host oe eeceeeeeeteeeeeeeeeecteesteesneeeneeenteeenes 113 Service and support solutions CD Replacemen
35. File vexcept File The following parameters can be used with the CRC32 switch Parameter Explanation create Create an ASCII CRC32 file from a disk verify Verify a disk from a CRC32 file pcreate Create an ASCII CRC32 file from a partition pverify Verify a partition from an ASCII CRC32 file dcreate Create an ASCII CRC32 file from an image file dverify Verify an image file from an ASCII CRC32 file crcfile ASCII CRC32 file default Ghost crc vlist Verification list file default Ghost ls vexcept Verification exception file no default CRC32 switch usage Examples of CRC32 usage Switch Function ghostpe exe fcr ghostpe exe fcr d test crce ghostpe exe CRC32 action create src 1 crcfile ghost cre ghostpe exe crc32 action dverify src x dumpfile gho crcfile ghost cre ghostpe exe crc32 action pverify src 1 2 crcfile filename crc 2 This example verifies that partition 2 on disk 1 is the same as partition 2 in the CRC file ghostpe exe crc32 action create Note that the default disk is the primary drive the default ASCII CRC32 file is Ghost cre ghostpe exe CRC32 action create src 2 crcfile myfile txt Same as previous except that you specify the disk and ASCII CRC32 file This example uses disk 2 as the source drive and the output file as Myfile txt ghostpe exe CRC32 action verify The default disk is the primary drive and the default ASCII CRC322 file is Ghost cre
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38. Norton Ghost User s Guide Norton Ghost Norton Ghost User s Guide The software described in this book is furnished under a license agreement and may be used only in accordance with the terms of the agreement Documentation version 6 7 PN 07 30 00472 Copyright Notice Copyright 1998 2001 Symantec Corporation All Rights Reserved Any technical documentation that is made available by Symantec Corporation is the copyrighted work of Symantec Corporation and is owned by Symantec Corporation NO WARRANTY The technical documentation is being delivered to you AS IS and Symantec Corporation makes no warranty as to its accuracy or use Any use of the technical documentation or the information contained therein is at the risk of the user Documentation may include technical or other inaccuracies or typographical errors Symantec reserves the right to make changes without prior notice No part of this publication may be copied without the express written permission of Symantec Corporation 20330 Stevens Creek Boulevard Cupertino CA 95014 Trademarks Symantec the Symantec logo Symantec Ghost Norton Ghost Ghost Walker Ghost Explorer and GDisk are trademarks of Symantec Corporation Microsoft MS DOS Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation IBM OS 2 and OS 2 Warp are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks of
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40. OWS COOKIES WINDOWS HISTORY WINDOWS RECENT WINDOWS USER DAT WINDOWS TEMPOR 1 CACHE1 WINDOWS TEMPOR 1 CACHE2 WINDOWS TEMPOR 1 CACHE3 WINDOWS TEMPOR 1 CACHE4 partition 2 Fil end of list The exclusion list is case sensitive all files should be specified in upper case The wildcard follows UNIX rules it is more powerful than the MS DOS In particular it matches the as well as any other character but other characters can follow the Thus a wildcard of br matches any files containing the letters br for example brxyz txt abr txt and abc dbr CRC32 switch usage The specification of WINDOWS COOKIES in the example above means match all files in the subdirectory WINDOWS COOKIES that have an extension To match all files with or without an extension WINDOWS COOKIES should be used Short file names should be used in exclusion files Files specified before the first Partition x heading are used to match files in any partition A directory of matches any subdirectory regardless of nesting The above exclusion file matches any file with an extension of 1 in any subdirectory on the second partition Apart from this wildcards should be used for files not for directories 97 Command line switches 98 A P P E Nee Setting up the hardware and transfer methods Before using Norton Ghost consider the hardware and transfer requirements for the transfer method tha
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42. Reinitialize the Master Boot Record Use batch mode command execution Overview of main command line switches Mode Switch Explanation Disk wipe diskwipe Wipe the contents of the whole disk boot ini bootini Makes a modification to the Windows NT 2000 boot menu This switch functions with GDisk32 only Online Help for command line switches You can get an overview of the nine modes of operation and their switches by using the Help switch m GDisk C progra 1 symantec Norton 1 gdisk m GDisk32 C progra 1 symantec Norton 1 gdisk32 Note An additional switch not shown in Help is the VERSION switch This switch shows the version information for the GDisk executable More detailed Help is available by qualifying the Help command with the switch for one of the eight main modes of operation For example to view the detailed Help file for Hide type one of the following command lines m GDisk C progra 1 symantec Norton 1 gdisk hide m GDisk32 C progra 1 symantec Norton 1 gdisk32 hide 59 Managing partitions using GDisk Switches common to all GDisk commands You can use the following switches for any of the nine main operations Switch Explanation X Prevents GDisk from using extended disk access support This may result in GDisk not being aware of the full capacity of the disk i Prevents GDisk from using direct IDE disk access support This may result in GDisk not being aware
43. Tape drives 45 Viewing contents 52 Internal drives 101 J jl x filename switch 82 L License number 26 Linux 26 28 52 62 80 LiveUpdate 14 Load Command 89 lockinfo switch 82 locktype type switch 82 Ipm switch 82 Ips switch 83 LPT port 100 Support 18 M Master 99 MBR reinitializing 59 memcheck switch 83 Mode switch 89 MS DOS 24 N Network Performance 42 nofile switch 83 nolilo switch 83 Norton Ghost Updating 14 noscsi switch 83 ntc switch 83 ntchkdsk switch 83 ntd switch 83 ntic switch 83 ntiid switch 84 ntil switch 84 O Operations See also Procedures or switch 84 P Parallel port transfer Automation 82 88 Setup 99 Partition Creating 60 Status 62 Partitions 57 Activating Deactivating 67 Cloning 33 Hiding 67 Password 84 PC DOS 24 pcopy command 89 pdump command 89 Peer to peer connections 99 Performance network 42 ping utility 112 pload command 89 pmbr switch 84 Procedures Disk cloning 28 From image file 32 To disk 28 To image file 30 Partition cloning 33 From image file 36 To image file 35 To partition 33 pwd pwd x switch 84 Q quiet switch 85 Search the online help index for more information 123 R RAID 50 84 rb switch 85 S SCSI tape drives 46 Setup 100 Switches 86 87 Sector bad 76 80 88 Sector by sector copy 80 Service and Support 115 Setup 101 See also SCSI Tape skip x switch 85 Slave 99 span switch 86 Spanning 44 4
44. You cannot enter a value that exceeds the available space is beyond the file system s limitations or that is not large enough to contain the data held in the source partition Cloning disk to disk 28 When you clone disk to disk Norton Ghost copies the contents of one hard disk onto another To clone disk to disk 1 On the Norton Ghost main menu click Local gt Disk gt To Disk In the License field type your license number Click OK In the Source Drive dialog box select the source drive A OO N The Source Drive dialog box shows the details of every disk that Norton Ghost finds on the local computer 5 Inthe Destination Drive dialog box select the destination drive Choose carefully as this is the disk that will be overwritten If a peer to peer connection method is used the destination drive will be any of the slave computer s disks However if this is a local disk to disk copy then the source disk is unavailable for selection 6 Confirm or change the destination drive partition layout The Destination Drive Details dialog box shows a suggested partition layout for the destination drive Cloning disks Click OK When the Proceed with Disk Clone question appears check the details and ensure that the correct options are selected 9 Do one of the following m Click Yes to proceed with the disk cloning The system performs an integrity check of the file structure on the source disk and then
45. a disk to disk or image to disk cloning operation quiet skip x Quiet mode Disables status updates and user intervention Restarts after finishing a load or copy After completing a load or copy operation the target computer must be restarted so that the operating system can load the new disk partition information Normally Norton Ghost prompts the user to restart or exit rb tells Norton Ghost to automatically restart after completing the clone For more information see fx on page 80 Skip file Causes Norton Ghost to exclude the indicated files during a create or load operation A skip entry can specify a single file directory or multiple files using the wildcard File names must be given in short file name format and all path names are absolute Only FAT system files can be skipped It is not possible to skip files on NTFS or other file systems The skip switch may only be included in the command line once To specify multiple skip entries they must be included in a text file indicated using skip skipfile The format of the skip text file skipfile matches the format used with the CRC32 vexcept option Examples m skip windows user dll Skips the file User dll in the Windows directory m skip readme txt Skips any file called Readme txt in any directory m skip ghost dll Skips any file ending with dll in the Ghost directory 85 Command line switches span split x Sze tapebuffere
46. ability to hide a partition or make a hidden partition visible Unlike Fdisk which uses interactive menus and prompts GDisk is command line driven This offers quicker configuration of a disk s partitions and the ability to define GDisk operations in a batch file 57 Managing partitions using GDisk Running GDisk Run either GDisk in DOS or GDisk32 in Windows To run GDisk 1 Start your computer in DOS mode 2 At the DOS prompt type progra 1 symantec Norton 1 GDisk followed by the required disk and switches To run GDisk32 1 On the Windows taskbar click Start gt Programs gt MS DOS Prompt 2 At the DOS prompt type progra 1 symantec Norton 1 GDisk32 followed by the required disk and switches Overview of main command line switches 58 GDisk has nine main modes of operation The first four correspond to the menu options on the Fdisk main menu The mode in which GDisk operates is selected by one of the following switches Mode Switch Explanation Create cre Create partitions primary DOS partitions extended DOS partitions Delete del Delete partitions of any type including nonDOS Status default status Activate act Hide hide Reinitialize MBR mbr Batch batch partitions List information on the specified fixed disk and its partitions Activate and deactivate a partition specifying it as the bootable partition Hide an existing partition or unhide a hidden partition
47. ank CD R media are required For more information see Image files and CD writers on page 47 Internal drives To work with internal drives ensure that each of the drives is properly configured This means that if fixed IDE drives are in use the jumpers on the drives are set up correctly and the BIOS of the computer is configured for the disk arrangement Both the source and the destination drives must be free from file corruption and physical hard drive defects Third party device Install the DOS driver as outlined in the device documentation 101 Setting up the hardware and transfer methods 102 A P P E N D USB and DirectParallel Cables This appendix provides detail on USB and DirectParallel cables that can be used with Norton Ghost Parallel Technologies cables Parallel Technologies USB and DirectParallel Universal Fast Cable provide high speed data transfer and can significantly increase Norton Ghost performance USB and DirectParallel connection cables are available directly from Parallel Technologies Via Web site http www lpt com Via telephone 800 789 4784 U S 425 869 1119 International Via fax 253 813 8730 Via email sales lpt com The USB and DirectParallel connection cables can also be used for high speed computer to computer file transfer and networking in Windows 9x and Windows 2000 Norton Ghost contains DirectParallel driver technology from Parallel Technologies Inc the dev
48. at Norton Ghost finds on the local computer Cloning partitions 10 11 In the Destination Partition dialog box select the destination partition Select an existing partition carefully as this is the partition that will be overwritten The Destination Partition dialog box contains the details of all of the partitions on the selected destination drive If this is a local partition to partition copy then the source partition is unavailable for selection However you can create a new partition if space is available If you create a new partition it can be resized during the cloning operation In the Proceed with Partition Load dialog box ensure that the correct options have been selected Do one of the following m Click Yes to proceed with the partition cloning Norton Ghost overwrites the destination partition using the partition details contained in the image file If you need to abort the process press Ctrl C but be aware that this leaves the destination partition in an unknown state Warning Only click Yes if you are sure that you want to proceed The destination partition is completely overwritten with no chance of recovering any data m Click No to return to the menu If spanning is enabled do one of the following m Click OK to continue on the same form of media m Click Filename to restore from a different location then type the location and file name of the image file span Restart the destination
49. ath a winnt instructs GDisk32 to create an ARC style entry and must be used if the target operating system is Windows NT 2000 If this switch is not used then GDisk32 creates an entry as if the target operating system is not Windows NT 2000 m sysfolder lets you specify the Windows system folder on the target operating system The system folder is usually Winnt If the system folder is not Winnt then provide the path to this folder but do not include the root directory For example use sysfolder 2k WinNt not sysfolder f 2k WinNt 70 Modify the Windows NT 2000 boot menu Adding an entry for starting a nonWindows NT 2000 operating system The syntax for this command is as follows gdisk32 bootini add d diskno p partno desc description inifile filename bsectfile filename r This entry to Boot ini references a boot sector file used to continue the starting process The entry has the following format lt full path to boot sector file gt lt boot sector file gt description For example C bootos2s dat Boot OS 2 System When adding this entry GDisk does the following m Reads the first sector of the targeted partition boot sector m Writes out the contents of that sector to a boot sector file m Adds a reference to that boot sector file to Boot ini The bsectfile switch lets you specify the full path and file name for the boot sector file that is created GDisk32 does the followi
50. ating the Protocol ini configuration file and must always end with a character If the Setup did not fill in this field for you read the sample Protocol ini file in the same directory as the driver itself to find the driver name In the Parameters field type the parameters for the Protocol ini configuration file If you use Setup to automatically fill in this page you will see the parameters that you need to adjust For the majority of plug and play cards all of the parameters are optional so you can either accept the defaults or leave this field empty Customizing the template 22 You may require additional drivers and programs in order to use the network device attached to your computer For example many USB network devices need to load an extra driver for the USB port before the driver for the network device You can add files to the template and customize the Autoexec bat and Config sys files of the resulting boot disk Usually these are either DOS drivers or executable programs but any type of file can be added Files added to the template appear in the list to the right of the button If this template is a multicard template then any additional files or modifications are overridden by the settings in the multicard template Adding command line parameters to a boot package To add a file to a template 1 2 3 In the Template Properties window on the Advanced tab click New Click Delete to delete the selected f
51. ault Norton Ghost does not eject the tape It rewinds the tape before exiting to DOS Sets the ASPI driver to report a read write as successful only when the data has been transferred to the physical medium Useful when using older or unreliable tape devices or sequential media Specifies the tape block size in units of 512 bytes Allows control of tape speed Where x equals 0 to F 0 is the default 1 F increases tape speed Only use this when the tape does not work correctly at the speed used by Norton Ghost Sets the ASPI driver to report a read write as successful only when the data has been transferred to the tape drive It is possible that this occurs before the data is physically written to the medium tcpmlI slave IP address tcps TCP IP master mode This switch causes Norton Ghost to automatically go into TCP IP master mode and is the equivalent of selecting TCP IP Master from the main menu The IP address of the slave computer may be specified For more information see Peer to peer connections on page 99 TCP IP slave mode This switch causes Norton Ghost to automatically go into TCP IP slave mode and is the equivalent of selecting TCP IP Slave from the main menu For more information see Peer to peer connections on page 99 87 Command line switches usbm usbs vdw ver ver value 88 USB master mode This switch causes Norton Ghost to automatically go into USB master mode
52. avigating without a mouse If you have mouse drivers loaded you can use the mouse to navigate in Norton Ghost You can also use the keyboard Use arrow keys to navigate the menu Press Tab to move from button to button Press Enter to activate the selected button Press Enter to select an item in a list Using Norton Ghost To use Norton Ghost 1 2 Start the Norton Ghost executable Add command line switches if necessary For more information see Command line switches on page 75 Select the transfer method Select the Norton Ghost operation Do one of the following m Select the source hard drive and partitions m Select the image file Do one of the following m Select the destination hard drive and partition m Select the image file Make sure that you select the correct destination to overwrite In most cases you cannot recover data from an incorrectly selected destination drive Complete the cloning operation 27 Cloning disks and partitions Cloning disks You access disk cloning procedures from the main menu You can specify one of the following transfer methods m Local m LPT gt Master m USB gt Master TCP IP gt Master By default Norton Ghost tries to maintain the same size ratio between the new disk partitions However you should note the following m You can change the size of any destination FAT NTFS or Linux Ext2 partition by entering the new size in megabytes m
53. can check the version of Norton Ghost used to create your image file in Ghost Explorer For more information see Determining Norton Ghost image file version on page 55 Adding moving and deleting files Within image files Ghost Explorer supports Windows cut and paste operations including copying pasting moving deleting and adding files to images You can also drag and drop from Windows Explorer to Ghost Explorer 53 Using Ghost Explorer to modify image file contents Saving a list of contents of an image file You can save a text file that contains a list of the directories and optionally files and their details that are in the current image file To save a list of the contents of an image file 1 In Ghost Explorer open the image file 2 On the File menu click Save Contents 3 Do one of the following Click Directories only to include directories only m Click Include Files to include files m Click Include Details to include file details Select a directory to which to save the text file Type a file name Click Save Setting span file sizes Norton Ghost lets you split an image file into smaller files called spans The Span Split Point function in Ghost Explorer lets you set the size of each span so that when you add files or directories each span file does not get bigger than the specified size To set a span file size 1 On the View menu click Options 2 In the Span Split Point MB field type the r
54. ce Norton Ghost prompts you to enable spanning of image files Cloning partitions To clone a partition to an image file 1 2 10 On the main menu click Local gt Partition gt To Image In the Source Drive dialog box select the source drive The Source Drive dialog box contains the details of every disk that Norton Ghost finds on the local computer In the Source Partition dialog box select the source partitions to include in the destination image file The Source Partition dialog box contains the details of all the partitions on the selected source drive Multiple partitions may be selected Click OK In the File Locator dialog box select the image file Do one of the following m Type the path and file name for the disk image file m Click Browse to locate the image file Press Enter In the Compress Image dialog box do one of the following m Click No for no compression high speed m Click Fast for low compression medium speed m Click High for high compression slower speed If spanning is enabled click Yes and type the location of the next span of the image file For more information see Image files and volume spanning on page 43 In the Proceed with Partition Dump dialog box ensure that the correct options have been selected 35 Cloning disks and partitions 11 Do one of the following m Click Yes to proceed with the image file creation The system performs a quick i
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56. clone mode pdump src 1 2 dst g part2 gho fer 75 Command line switches e filename afile filename auto bfc bootcd Standalone switch to bind and activate Norton Ghost using the license details included in the environment file Useful when installing or upgrading Norton Ghost to a newer version If the file name is not given it defaults to Ghost env The environment file is created when Norton Ghost is first licensed Overrides the default abort error log file Ghosterr txt to the directory and file given in filename Automatically names spanned image files during creation Using this switch avoids the user prompt that asks for confirmation of the next destination location for the remainder of the image file that is being loaded Handles bad FAT clusters when writing to disk If this switch is set and the target partition is FAT Norton Ghost checks for and works around bad sectors This option may slow Norton Ghost operation substantially When writing an image directly to a CD writer make the CD bootable You need a bootable floppy disk in drive A chkimg filename clone 76 Checks the integrity of the image file indicated by filename Clone operation switch This switch allows automation of Norton Ghost operations and has a series of arguments that define the operation parameters No spaces are allowed in the command line The number of size switches depends on the number of partition sizes that
57. connects to Symantec via the Internet to see if updates are available for Norton Ghost Symantec does not charge for Norton Ghost updates However your normal Internet access fees apply To update Norton Ghost using LiveUpdate 1 On the Windows taskbar click Start gt Programs gt Norton Ghost 2002 gt Norton Ghost Explorer 2 On the Help menu click LiveUpdate 3 Follow the on screen instructions Uninstalling Norton Ghost 14 Norton Ghost is uninstalled from the Control Panel in Windows To uninstall Norton Ghost 1 On the Windows taskbar click Start gt Settings gt Control Panel 2 Double click Add Remove Programs 3 Click Norton Ghost 2002 4 Click OK Creating boot disks with the Ghost Boot Wizard The Ghost Boot Wizard creates boot packages that let you complete a number of different cloning tasks For any given task the Ghost Boot Wizard guides you through the different steps to select the settings and drivers needed to create the boot package Opening the Ghost Boot Wizard The procedures in this chapter assume that you know how to open the Ghost Boot Wizard To open the Ghost Boot Wizard m On the Windows taskbar click Start gt Programs gt Norton Ghost 2002 gt Ghost Boot Wizard E Norton Ghost Boot Wizard x Tf Welcome to the Ghost Boot Wizard Choose the type of boot disk you would ft like to create for booting your PC ith CD R RW LPT and USB Support ot CD writi
58. cs dump summary file contains the detected hard disk geometry details along with other Norton Ghost statistics The full Norton Ghost diagnostic statistics dump can be created using the command line switch dd The default statistics dump file name is Ghststat txt The location and file name of a file generated by Norton Ghost can be altered by adding the dfile drive path filename command line switch Testing TCP IP functionality There are several testing utilities available in the Microsoft TCP IP application suite An example of two Windows 95 TCP IP utilities Ping exe and Winipcfg exe is included below On Windows NT the equivalent utilities are Ping exe and Ipconfig exe The Ping exe utility shows TCP IP networking response and can be used to show connectivity between computers For a mapped network volume connection a client can ping the server and vice versa to check that they have basic connectivity at any time 112 Testing TCP IP functionality Pinging a local host shows basic local TCP IP functionality The address used in the following example identifies the local host on the network Pinging a local host In a Windows DOS prompt dialog box on a Windows 95 computer with a computer name Win95PC1 the following command is entered c gt ping LocalHost Pinging Win95PC1 127 0 0 1 with 32 bytes of data Reply from 127 0 0 1 bytes 32 time lt 10ms TTL 128 Reply from 127 0 0 1 bytes 32 time lt 10ms TTL 128 Reply fro
59. d 86 m skip progra 1 Skips the program files directory note the short file name m skip skipfile txt Skips files as outlined in Skipfile txt For example Skipfile txt contains tmt partition 1 windows exe Partition 2 me txt This would skip all tmt files on any partition the Windows directory and any exe files on the first partition and any file that ends with me txt on the second partition Enables spanning of image files across volumes Splits image file into x MB spans Use this switch to create a forced size volume set For example if you want to force smaller image files from a 1024 MB drive you could specify 200 MB segments For example ghostpe exe split 200 divides the image into 200 MB segments Sets the size for the destination partitions for either a disk load or disk copy operation For more information see Setting a destination size for the clone switch on page 92 Default tape mode Sets the ASPI driver to report a read write as successful as soon as the data has been transferred to memory Useful when using older or unreliable tape devices or sequential media tapeeject tapesafe tapebsize tapespeed x tapeunbuffered Forces Norton Ghost to eject the tape following a tape operation If the tape drive does not support remote ejection you must eject and insert the tape manually before further use Earlier versions ejected the tape by default By def
60. d disk or any of the partitions saved Clone disks at optimum speed 10 Norton Ghost saves you time when Copying one hard drive onto another m Loading an image file from one hard drive to another when both drives are installed in the same computer Many computers can transfer data at speeds of 1 gigabyte GB per minute This is an astounding speed especially considering that an image of a drive containing a Windows 98 operating system is a few hundred megabytes in size Using Norton Ghost to restore Windows 98 may take seconds Norton Ghost components Norton Ghost components Norton Ghost includes a number of products and utilities that you can install Ghost Boot Wizard The Ghost Boot Wizard creates boot disks that start Norton Ghost when you turn on your computer You can create boot disks for various cloning tasks The wizard guides you to the drivers needed to create a boot disk The Ghost Boot Wizard is a Windows application Norton Ghost Boot Wizard x Welcome to the Ghost Boot Wizard Choose the type of boot disk you would like to create for booting your PC Boot Disk with CD R RW LPT and USB Support G t disk for CD writing e as LPT and USB Peer to Peer Network Boot Disk Ghost boot disk with network support for TCP peer to peer CD ROM Boot Disk Ghost boot disk with generic CD ROM drivers for reading from CD May be used when making a CD bootable Copyright C 1998 2001 Symantec
61. d extract files from an image file This means that you can add extra files to the image file rearrange the files within the image file and extract files from the image file to copy onto client computers Ghost Explorer lets you quickly and easily restore files or directories from an image file Using Ghost Explorer you can m View image file contents and save a list of files within an image file m Restore files or directories from an image file m Add move copy delete and launch files from and within an image file m Use drag and drop or cut and paste functionality to add files and directories from Windows Explorer to the image file m Set span sizes m Adda description to an image file Note Right click a file or directory in Ghost Explorer to access a list of file commands 51 Using Ghost Explorer to modify image file contents Ghost Explorer supports the following partition types m FAT12 m Linux Ext2 m FAT16 m NTFS read only m FAT32 To open Ghost Explorer m On the Windows taskbar click Start gt Programs gt Norton Ghost gt Ghost Explorer Viewing image files 52 You can view the contents of an image file including details of the partitions directories and files There may be some degradation of performance when viewing image files created with Norton Ghost V3 Ghost Explorer cannot view m Image files created with a version earlier than version 3 0 m NTFS partitions in image file
62. ding from a spanned image ssccccccicscsesneririrsrsr 45 Image Hes and tape JOVES yt seetrincrevyehetevbann E EA RO 45 Image fides and GD Writers srcrrean eii E lien beietacoes 47 GoBack and Noiton Ghost elerne a E E aia alae 49 Cloning dynamic disks in Windows 2000 ccceceeseeseetteetteeneeeenes 50 Using Ghost Explorer to modify image file contents Viewing image flesta iue iea e aa a aaaea 52 Restoring a file or directory from an image file eeeeeeeee 53 Chapter 7 Appendix A Modifying image files in Ghost Explorer ccc eeeeeeeeeeees 53 Adding moving and deleting files oo ee eeeeeeeeteenteeentees 53 Saving a list of contents of an image file oo eee eereeeeeeneeeeneees 54 Seting span TIE SUES so args Seuss sets eb ieee A aap tas eee eee fens 54 Compiling a Sle cascade acheter adams 54 Determining Norton Ghost image file version ceceeeetetteeeees 55 Using Ghost Explorer from the command line wee 55 Managing partitions using GDisk Runnin GDisk ooie eh aa Ra a ee elas 58 Overview of main command line switches ceeceeceeeseetteenteeeees 58 Online Help for command line switches wees 59 Switches common to all GDisk commands cceceeteenteeees 60 Creating a partition anerer iin a A a En E a 60 Reinitializing the Master Boot Record oo eeeeeceeceeeeeeteetteeteeneenaees 62 Showing information about disks eeceeceesseeeteeteeeeteeeteeeneeeeees 62 Performing multiple GDisk operations usin
63. e AA55 Not Found error message Windows NT does not support drives larger than 7 8 GB unless you install Service Pack 4 or apply the ATAPI hot fix to Service Pack 3 This information is included in the Windows Knowledgebase Article IBM DTTA 351010 10 1 GB Drive Capacity Is Inaccurate Article ID Q183654 73 Managing partitions using GDisk 74 A P P E N D Command line switches filename Norton Ghost can be run m Interactively with no command line switches m Interactively with selected switches The Norton Ghost command line switches are used to alter Norton Ghost behavior and automate procedures To list Norton Ghost command line switches m Inthe Ghost directory type one of the following m ghostpe exe h m ghostpe exe A hyphen or a slash must precede all switches except Switches are not case sensitive They can be entered in upper lower or mixed case Specifies a file containing additional command line switches that should be read Filename indicates the path and file name of the command line switch file The command line switch file can include any Norton Ghost command line switch except for afile and dfile The Norton Ghost command line switch file must be a text file with each switch on a new line This feature lets you exceed the DOS command line limit of 150 characters For example for the following command line ghostpe exe ghswitch txt The file Ghswitch txt would read
64. e onto JAZ disks you can choose to continue on JAZ disks If you want to span across different forms of media you can select an option to span onto a different location Image files and tape drives Record where the span segments are saved and the segment file names Norton Ghost does not record the locations and file names you selected Information about the partitions is stored at the start of the image file This is updated at the end of the Ghost process which might require you to reinsert the first disk in the span set Norton Ghost prompts you for the first disk in the span set and for subsequent volumes when loading from an image Loading from a spanned image When loading a disk or partition from a spanned image file the process is the same as loading from an unspanned image file The loading procedure is the reverse of the saving procedure However during the loading of the spanned image file you are prompted for the location of the image file spans You must know the span segment locations and file names You can continue on the same form of media For example if you originally spanned onto a JAZ disk and want to restore a 3 0 GB drive from JAZ disks you can replace the disk and continue from JAZ disks To load spanned images without prompting you can set the AutoName switch on the Ghost main menu under Options For more information see Adding switches to your cloning task on page 39 Image files and tape d
65. e MS DOS Include MS DOS on the boot disk For more information see Selecting a version of DOS on page 24 Click Next Type the correct path in the GhostPE exe field if the executable has been moved or you want to use a different version of Ghost The default path to the Ghost executable appears in the GhostPE exe field In the Parameters field type any required command line parameters For more information see Adding command line parameters to a boot package on page 23 Click Next In the Floppy Disk Drive field type the appropriate drive letter In the Number of disks to create field type the number of disks that you want to create Click Format disk s first to format the disks before disk creation Click Quick Format to perform a quick format Click Next 19 Creating boot disks with the Ghost Boot Wizard Multicard templates and the boot disk You can use multicard templates to create a boot disk containing several NDIS2 drivers When the computer starts a special multicard driver checks the computer s hardware to see if any of the NDIS2 drivers can be used to access the installed network card Refer to the Software License Agreement for use restrictions To create a multicard template 1 2 3 In the Network Interface Card window click Multicard Template Click Next Select the required drivers from the list of NDIS2 drivers Select no more than five drivers as space is limited on a flo
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67. elopers of the Direct Cable Connection computer to computer technology built into Windows 9x and Windows 2000 The DirectParallel drivers and cables contain patent pending parallel port interface technology 103 USB and DirectParallel Cables Other USB cables The following USB peer to peer cables can also be used with Norton Ghost m EzLink USB Instant Network model 2710 m USB LinQ Network BusLink USB to USB File Transfer cable model UFT06 APPEND Cloning with Linux Norton Ghost can clone many different Linux systems However ensure that the position of the disk and the boot configuration are appropriate for a cloning task You can use Ghost Explorer with ext2 files However there are some restrictions Supported configurations Norton Ghost can clone many different Linux distributions successfully However Norton Ghost is sensitive to any possible changes in ext2 file system and LILO specifications If changes are made to these specifications Norton Ghost may no longer support the Linux distribution Symantec attempts to release new builds of Ghost promptly to address such changes Norton Ghost is not sensitive to kernel versions Use the nolinux and nolilo command line switches to resolve problems with any incompatibilities For more information see Command line switches on page 75 Norton Ghost clones any x86 based Linux system with full support for ext2 file systems type 0x83 containing
68. equired size 3 Click Autoname Spans if you want Ghost Explorer to choose a default name for additional span files that it creates Compiling a file 54 If you add or delete files from within an image file the image file becomes fragmented Norton Ghost takes longer to restore a fragmented image than a compiled file Compiling a file defragments it which improves performance when restoring Determining Norton Ghost image file version Check the properties of the image file to see whether compilation is recommended To compile a file 1 On the File menu click Properties 2 On the File menu click Compile if compilation is recommended 3 Type anew name for the compiled file 4 Click Save Determining Norton Ghost image file version Whether you can add delete or view an image file or move files within an image file depends on the version of Norton Ghost that was used to create the image file Ghost Explorer cannot open a file created with a version of Norton Ghost earlier than 3 0 If the image file was created in Norton Ghost 3 0 or greater you can determine the version by looking at its properties in Ghost Explorer To determine the version of Norton Ghost used to create an image file 1 In Ghost Explorer open the image file 2 On the File menu click Properties The Properties window appears The version of Norton Ghost used to create the image file appears next to Produced by Ghost version Using Ghost Explor
69. er from the command line You can start Ghost Explorer from an MS DOS prompt by typing its path and file name For example C Progra 1 Symantec Norton 1 Ghostexp Note If Ghost Explorer is in the current directory or in a directory on your path you do not need to type the path name You can also provide a Ghost image file as an argument for Ghost Explorer to open For example Ghostexp n Images Myimage gho 55 Using Ghost Explorer to modify image file contents 56 If Ghost Explorer reports a corruption in your image file you may be able to get further details of the nature of the corruption Normally you would only use these options when asked to do so by Ghost Explorer Technical Support Start the program with one of the following arguments d1 Reports on corruptions or significant events in FAT file systems d2 Reports on corruptions or significant events in NTFS file systems d4 Reports on corruptions or significant events in Ext2 files The reports are presented to you as dialog boxes You can use all switches or use d7 to turn on all options Ghost Explorer has a batch mode in which it carries out a single command and then exits In this version batch mode supports the saving of the contents to a text file only To use this mode specify one of the following switches t Save the list of directories in the dump file to a file with the same name as the image file but with an extension of txt tf Sa
70. er mode and is the equivalent of selecting LPT Master from the main menu For more information see Peer to peer connections on page 99 A Ips memcheck nofile nolilo noscsi ntc ntchkdsk ntd ntic LPT slave mode This switch causes Norton Ghost to automatically go into LPT slave mode and is the equivalent of selecting LPT Slave from the main menu For more information see Peer to peer connections on page 99 Activates internal memory usage checking for Technical Support Disables the Image File Selection dialog box Useful when opening directories with large numbers of files and slow links Does not attempt to patch the LILO boot loader after a clone If you use the nolilo switch you need to start from a floppy disk after the clone and then run sbin lilo as the root user to reinstall LILO Disables access to SCSI devices via ASPI Disables NTFS contiguous run allocation Cloned NTFS volume will have the CHKDSK bit set This causes Windows NT to check the integrity of the volume when it is started Enables NTFS internal diagnostic checking Ignores the NTFS volume CHKDSK bit Norton Ghost checks the CHKDSK bit on an NTFS volume before performing operations When Norton Ghost indicates that the CHDSK bit is set run CHKDSK on the volume to ensure that the disk is in a sound state before cloning 83 Command line switches ntiid ntil By default Norton Ghost cop
71. erated using the CRC32 command line switch For more information see Command line switches on page 75 Image files and volume spanning Images can be contained in a single file or spanned across a number of files Standard image files Standard image files consist of a single file containing the contents of the complete disk or required partitions This type of image file is used for storing system configurations on other hard drives and tape drives where the volume is large enough to hold the complete image file Size limited multisegment image files There are situations in which it is not practical to have a standard image file Norton Ghost can split an image file into segments known as spans that are limited to a user specified size This option is most commonly used to limit span sizes to 550 MB for later transfer onto CD ROM The default and maximum file size is 2 GB 43 Image file options Spanned image files Spanned image files are similar to size limited multisegment image files The difference is that each segment file or span of the image file is limited by the actual volume size of the media to which the image is being saved This lets you specify a drive and file name and lets Norton Ghost sort out when to request another volume or location for the remaining data This is very useful when using ZIP JAZ LS120 Superdisk CD R RW drives and other drive types Spanning must be executed locally If y
72. formed command line 63 Managing partitions using GDisk 64 Following is an example batch command file called Two new gg Blank lines and lines starting with the hash symbol are considered comments These lines are ignored In this example the commands do not specify the fixed disk on which to operate delete all partitions del all create formatted FAT16 primary DOS partition cre pri 32 for q cre ext create formatted FAT16 logical DOS partition cre log 32 for q The following command deletes all partitions and creates two new ones on the second fixed disk with confirmation prompting turned off gdisk 2 y batch two new gg The four commands to be executed are a combination of the original command plus the commands from the batch file edisk 2 y del all gdisk 2 y cre pri 32 for q gdisk 2 y cre ext gdisk 2 y cre log 32 for q Batch files may be nested recursively so if a second file called Std_init gg contained the following lines 1 batch two new gg 2 batch two new gg then this command performs the actions of Two new gg on both fixed disks gdisk batch std init gg FAT16 partitions in Windows NT FAT16 partitions in Windows NT FAT16 partitions can be up to 4 GB in size using 64 K clusters in Windows NT GDisk can create a FAT16 partition using 64 K clusters when the Ntfat16 switch is added to the create partition command line This switch disables the crea
73. g batch mode 63 FAT16 partitions in Windows NT eesecccsecccccieerereinre 65 Deleting and wiping your disk 0 ccccccccceccececeeteetetsetseteeteeteeteeeenes 65 Activate or deactivate a partition ooo i Tan A 67 Hide or unhide a partition occ cccceceseeseeeeseeeeeneeteteeeneeeneeseneereaes 67 Modify the Windows NT 2000 boot Menu wo ececeeeeteeeeeteetteeteenes 68 Specifying the boot ini path and file name wo 68 Displaying the list of current boot entries cee eects 68 Adding an entry to BOLID occ einni oa in 69 Adding an entry for starting Windows NT 2000 ese 70 Adding an entry for starting a nonWindows NT 2000 OPECLAUINSSYSLEM sessir t soii EEEE a vere ET dente 71 Removing an entry from BOoOt ini cece eceeeeceeeteeteeteenteenees 72 Setting the default boot option and timeout oe 72 Support for large hard disks isie on G did eden de 73 Command line switches Glone switch syntax sand capes Ae ee 89 Defining the type of clone command ee ceeeeseetteetteeneeeees 89 Cloning combination Options ccc eee eeeneeeeen 90 Setting a source for the clone switch oo eceeeeeteeeteeetteeneenees 90 Setting a destination for the clone switch 0 eeeeeeeteeeees 91 Setting a destination size for the clone switch ee 92 Examples of clone switch Usage wo eee eee eeeneeneenes 93 ERGS2 Switch tsa gels esse m e a e AE e ON 94 Examples of CRC32 USaQe preires E EEEa 95 Appendix B Appendix C Appendix
74. h to the Norton Ghost executable appears in the GhostPE exe field In the Parameters field type any required command line parameters For more information see Adding command line parameters to a boot package on page 23 Click Next In the Floppy Disk Drive field type the appropriate drive letter In the Number of disks to create field type the number of disks that you want to create Click Format disk s first to format the disks before disk creation Click Quick Format to perform a quick format Click Next 17 Creating boot disks with the Ghost Boot Wizard Boot disks with network support The Ghost Boot Wizard helps you create boot disks that provide network support for TCP IP peer to peer connections Before starting this process you need to know the types of network cards that are installed on your computers Unless you use the multicard template you must create a boot disk for each network card To create a boot disk with network support 1 In the Ghost Boot Wizard window click Peer to Peer Network Boot Disk Click Next Select the network driver for the make and model of the network card installed on the computer If the correct driver isn t in the list add the driver For more information see Adding network drivers to the Ghost Boot Wizard on page 20 and Multicard templates and the boot disk on page 20 Click Next Select one of the following m Use PC DOS Include PC DOS
75. host can generate several diagnostic reports outlining the hard drive devices detected other system related information and error conditions when they are detected Norton Ghost abort error file Ghosterr txt An error message consists of an error number a description and possibly a suggestion of how to remedy the problem The Norton Ghost abort error file includes these details along with additional drive diagnostics and details required to assist Technical Support in diagnosing the cause of the problem The Norton Ghost abort error file is generated when an erroneous condition is detected by the software that Norton Ghost is unable to recover from or work around The Ghosterr txt file is generated in the current directory If this location is read only the Ghosterr txt file output location should be redirected The location and file name of the abort file generated by Norton Ghost during an abort can be altered using the afile drive path file name command line switch For more information see Troubleshooting on page 107 111 Diagnostics Listing hard disk geometry diagnostics A list of all detected hard drives on the system and their associated geometry values can be shown on screen using the command line switch di To generate a file containing the details use the following DOS redirect output c gt ghostpe exe di gt drives txt Creating a full diagnostic statistics dump summary A full diagnostic statisti
76. ies partitions participating in an NT volume set stripe set or mirror set using image all sector by sector copying This switch forces Norton Ghost to ignore the Windows NT volume set partition status and clone the partition as if it were an NTFS partition to let it be intelligently cloned on a file by file basis Take care when using this switch Do not use the ntiid switch with volume sets and stripe sets To clone mirrored partitions also known as NT software RAID partitions 1 With Windows NT disk administrator break the mirror set 2 Using the ntiid switch clone one of the mirror partitions 3 Resize as desired Partitions can only be resized by Norton Ghost during a DISK operation When performing a partition operation the target partition size must already be established 4 After cloning recreate a mirror set using the Windows NT disk administrator The disk administrator creates the partitions in the mirror set Ignores NTFS log file check inconsistent volume Override Allows the override of internal space and integrity checks Avoid using this switch pwd and pwd x pmbr 84 Specifies that password protection be used when creating an image file x indicates the password for the image file If no password is given in the switch Norton Ghost prompts for one You can enter a maximum of 10 alphanumeric characters Specifies that the master boot record of the destination disk be preserved when performing
77. ile from the list In the Autoexec bat field type any additional Autoexec bat entries for the driver The entries appear before any network related commands such as Netbind com or the packet driver executable In the Config sys field type any additional Config sys entries for the driver The entries appear before any driver related devices load to ensure that enabling drivers load before the main network device drivers specified on the network driver page Adding command line parameters to a boot package You can enter command line parameters to a boot package to instruct Norton Ghost to perform certain actions For more information see Command line switches on page 75 In the following example the parameters instruct Norton Ghost to back up your main disk to an image on another drive clone mode dump src 1 dst d backups maindrv gho Clone Parameters Description mode dump Dumps an image src 1 Specifies drive 1 as the source drive dst D Backups Maindrv gho Saves the image to the file D Backups Maindrv gho 23 Creating boot disks with the Ghost Boot Wizard Selecting a version of DOS 24 The Ghost Boot Wizard includes IBM PC DOS on a boot disk However a boot disk that includes IBM PC DOS might not start on all computers When creating a boot disk you can include MS DOS instead of IBM PC DOS If you use MS DOS then you must install MS DOS files on the computer on which you are creat
78. ing operation Clears the signature bytes on the destination disk when performing a disk to disk or image to disk cloning operation When an extended partition is created in a disk to disk or image to disk operation the extended partition takes up as much disk space as allowed Prefers the use of direct IDE access for IDE hard disk operations This switch does not have any effect when running Norton Ghost in Windows 98 Prefers the use of direct ASPI SCSI disk access for SCSI hard disk operations Prefers the use of Extended Interrupt 13h disk access for hard disk operations Shows the fingerprint details written on a hard disk created by Norton Ghost The fingerprint details include the process used to create the disk or partition and the time date and disk on which the operation was performed Use all available disk space when creating partitions By default Norton Ghost often leaves a small amount of free space at the end of the disk Because partitions must be aligned to cylinder boundaries Norton Ghost may leave up to 5 MB free even when fis is specified 79 Command line switches fni fns fnx fro h or ial 80 Disables direct IDE access support for IDE hard disk operations Disables direct ASPI SCSI access support for SCSI hard disk operations Disables extended INT13 support for hard disk operations Forces Norton Ghost to continue cloning even if the source contains bad clusters
79. ing the boot disk Using a floppy disk that was formatted on a Windows 9x computer you can install the MS DOS files during the creation of the boot disk To install MS DOS files on your computer 1 Insert a blank floppy disk into drive A of a Windows 9x computer Double click the My Computer icon Right click drive A then click Format Click Copy System Files a A W N Insert the formatted floppy disk into drive A of the computer on which the Ghost Boot Wizard is running 6 Inthe Ghost Boot Wizard in the DOS version window click Get MS DOS C H A Pie Cloning disks and partitions You can use the Norton Ghost executable to clone a computer create a backup and restore a computer You can write an image file directly to a CD R RW and make the disk bootable You can add some command line switches to the cloning task in the Options window Starting the Norton Ghost executable The Norton Ghost executable is a DOS based application and should run in DOS mode outside of Windows If you run the Norton Ghost executable Ghostpe exe within Windows 98 note the following Files may be in an open or changing state If these files are cloned the resulting destination files are left in an inconsistent state The partition on which Windows 98 is installed must not be overwritten If you overwrite a drive or partition the system must be restarted Norton Ghost does not automatically restart the system Hard disk sizes may ap
80. ive2 gho Copy the second partition of local disk one to the first partition of local disk two Load disk two from an image file and resize the destination partitions into a 60 40 allocation Clone a two partition disk and keep the second partition on the destination disk the same size as on the source disk and let the first partition use the remaining space leaving no unallocated space Load disk one from an image file and resize the first partition to 450 MB the second to 1599 MB and the third to 2047 MB Load a disk from an image file and resize the last partition to fill the remaining space Create an image file of the second partition on disk 2 onto the first tape drive Create an image file with only the selected partitions This is an example of selecting partitions 1 4 and 6 from disk 2 93 Command line switches CRC32 switch usage CRC checking works file by file with FAT partitions NTFS partitions are CRC checked within an image file by each MFT table It is not possible at present to obtain a list of files failing a CRC check with an NTFS file system When a CRC file is created for an NTFS partition only a single CRC value is generated You can also create a CRC file from an image file and verify against a disk 94 The full syntax for this switch is CRC32 action create verify pcreate pverify dcreate dverify src DiskS pect PartSpec File crcfile File vlist
81. le Cloning a disk from an image file You can load a copy of one disk to another disk using a previously created image file To clone a disk from an image file 1 2 On the main menu click Local gt Disk gt From Image In the File Locator dialog box do one of the following m Type the path and file name of the image file Click Browse to locate the image file Select the drive or device Select the full path name The image file may reside on a local drive but not the one to which it is being copied When using peer to peer connections the file is located on the slave computer Press Enter In the License field type your license number Click OK 31 Cloning disks and partitions 32 10 11 12 13 In the Destination Drive dialog box select the destination drive Choose carefully as this is the disk that will be overwritten The Destination Drive dialog box shows the details of every drive that Norton Ghost finds on the local computer If you are copying from the local computer the disk containing the source image file is not available for selection In the Destination Drive Details dialog box confirm or change the destination drive partition layout The Destination Drive Details dialog box shows a suggested partition layout for the destination drive By default Norton Ghost tries to maintain the same size ratio between the new disk partitions However you should note the following m
82. ls of data compression When using Norton Ghost in interactive mode three compression options are provided none fast and high The Norton Ghost command line switch z provides access to nine levels of compression For more information see Command line switches on page 75 As a rule the more compression you use the slower Norton Ghost operates However compression can improve speed when there is a data transfer bottleneck There is a big difference in speed between high compression and no compression when creating an image file on a local disk Over a network connection fast compression is often as fast as or faster than no compression Over a parallel cable high compression is often faster than no compression because fewer bytes are sent over the cable Decompression of high compressed images is much faster than the original compression The level of compression that you select depends on your own individual requirements Performance expectations on a network 42 One advantage of Norton Ghost is speed It takes minutes to install an operating system such as Windows 98 whether onto 10 or 100 computers Many factors affect performance There are ways to gauge whether Norton Ghost is running optimally When using Norton Ghost on a network use the fast compression option If disk space is at a premium you can use higher compression but it affects speed Using a 10 MB s ethernet network a 25 60 MB minute server speed is
83. m 127 0 0 1 bytes 32 time lt 10ms TTL 128 Reply from 127 0 0 1 bytes 32 time lt 10ms TTL 128 This test indicates that the TCP IP stack is installed and operating 113 Diagnostics 114 Service and support solutions Service and support information is available from the Help system of your Symantec product Click the Service and Support topic in the Help index Technical support Symantec offers several technical support options Online Service and Support Connect to the Symantec Service amp Support Web site at http service symantec com select your user type and then select your product and version This gives you access to current hot topics knowledge bases file download pages multimedia tutorials contact options and more PriorityCare telephone support PriorityCare fee based telephone support services are available to all registered customers For complete information please call our automated fax retrieval service at 800 554 4403 and request document 933000 You can also access the PriorityCare number for your product through the Service amp Support Web site You ll be led through the online options first and then to the telephone contact options available for your product and version Automated fax retrieval Use your fax machine to receive general product information fact sheets and product upgrade order forms by calling 800 554 4403 For technical application notes call 541 984 2490
84. m Secure disk wiping m Extensive partition reporting Two versions of GDisk are supplied m GDisk Runs in DOS m GDisk32 Runs from the command line in a Windows operating system Installing Norton Ghost The Norton Ghost CD includes Norton Ghost Ghost Explorer and the Ghost Boot Wizard System requirements To use Norton Ghost your computer must meet the following minimum requirements m IBM computer or 100 compatible m 386 processor m 8 MB RAM m VGA monitor resolution 640 x 480 m Microsoft compatible mouse recommended To install Norton Ghost and to run Ghost Explorer and the Ghost Boot Wizard the minimum software requirements are Windows 98 NT 4 0 2000 XP or Me Internet Explorer 4 File systems supported for standalone cloning are All FAT All NTFS EXT2 For more information see Cloning with Linux on page 105 Installing Norton Ghost Installing Norton Ghost The Norton Ghost executable runs under DOS but you must install Norton Ghost in a Windows operating system To install Norton Ghost 1 Insert the Norton Ghost CD into the CD ROM drive In the Norton Ghost install window click Install Norton Ghost 2002 Click Next A OO N Follow the on screen instructions Updating Norton Ghost LiveUpdate provides Norton Ghost with updates It connects to Symantec sites to provide free updates to fix defects and provide additional features to the Norton Ghost program LiveUpdate
85. mit switch 78 fer switch 78 fdsp switch 79 fdsz switch 79 ffi switch 79 ffs switch 79 ffx switch 79 File system FAT12 52 FAT16 52 Windows NT 65 78 FAT32 52 Conversion from FAT16 78 Linux Ext2 52 62 NTFS switches 83 Files skipping 85 finger switch 79 Fingerprint See Ghost fis switch 79 fni switch 80 fns switch 80 fnx switch 80 fro switch 80 fx switch 80 G GDisk 57 58 Batch mode 63 Command line switches 59 Large hard disks 73 GDisk32 57 Modifying boot menu 68 Ghost Environment file 76 Fingerprint 79 Introduction 9 Scenarios 10 Updating 14 See also Uninstalling See also Procedures Ghost Boot Wizard 11 Bootable CD 47 Writing to a CD 38 47 Ghost Explorer 12 Command line 55 Ghost operation operating system 26 Ghost exe 11 Ghosterr txt See Abort log GoBack 49 H h switch 80 Hard disk Active 58 Batch 58 Creating 58 Deleting 58 65 Hiding partitions 58 Large drives 73 MBR 58 Status 58 Wiping 65 Hiding Partitions 67 I ia switch 80 ial switch 80 ib switch 81 id switch 81 Image files CD writers 47 Compression 30 42 88 crc See crc32 Creating 28 44 Insufficient space 44 File list 54 Loading 45 Modification 53 Multisegment 43 76 86 Password 84 Restoring 52 53 Size limited See Image files multisegment Spanned 44 45 54 76 86 Spanning 43 122 Search the online help index for more information Image files continued Split See Image files multisegment Standard 43
86. ng by default m Builds the file name from the entry descriptions omitting any invalid characters under DOS rules for 8 3 file name format m The boot sector file is created in the root directory of the C drive and has a dat file extension For example gdisk32 add d 1 p 2 desc Boot OS 2 produces a boot sector file C bootos2 dat 71 Managing partitions using GDisk Removing an entry from Boot ini Setting the 72 The syntax to remove an entry from Boot ini as follows gdisk32 bootini remove entry no inifile filename r Switch Explanation remove Removes the entry from Boot ini entry no Removes the ID of the entry from Boot ini If the entry to be removed is the default boot option GDisk removes the entry and sets the first entry in the remaining list as the default boot entry GDisk does not remove the entry if it is the only entry in Boot ini default boot option and timeout Use the default switch to set the default boot option and timeout The syntax for this command is as follows gdisk32 bootini default entry no timeout sec inifile filename r Switch Explanation default Sets the default boot option and timeout entry no Sets the ID of entry as the default boot option timeout sec Sets the number of seconds before the default boot option is selected Support for large hard disks Support for large hard disks GDisk includes large
87. ng with optional support for peer to peer LPT and USB 1 read from CD y Peer to Peer Network Boot Disk Ghost boot disk with network support for TCP peer to peer CD ROM Boot Disk Ghost boot disk with generic CD ROM drivers for reading from CD May be used when making a CD bootable Copyright C 1998 2001 Symantec Corp Back Next gt Cancel Help 15 Creating boot disks with the Ghost Boot Wizard Creating boot disks and boot images The processes for creating boot images and disks include how to create m Standard boot disks that enable the use of Norton Ghost on a single computer Boot disks enabling peer to peer services for USB and LPT m Network boot disks with network support for TCP peer to peer connections CD ROM boot disks with generic CD ROM drivers for reading a Ghost image from a CD ROM m A disk used in the creation of a bootable CD ROM Standard boot disks with the option of LPT and USB support The Ghost Boot Wizard creates a boot disk that does one of the following Lets you write Ghost images to a CD R RW m Runs Ghostpe exe on computers with LPT and USB support m Contains Ghostpe exe only Note Norton Ghost does not support writing to a CD ROM drive that is connected with a USB cable The default mode is ECP EPP High Speed If you are having problems with your LPT connection set the mode to Bidirectional 8bit or Bidirectional 4bit The next time you create a boot disk the
88. ntegrity check of the file structure on the source partitions and then copies the source partitions to the destination image file If you need to abort the process press Ctrl C but be aware that this leaves the destination image file in an unknown state m Click No to return to the menu 12 On the main menu click Check gt Image File After the image file has been created Norton Ghost can verify the integrity of the image file Cloning a partition from an image file 36 Once you have created an image file from a partition you can clone a partition onto a partition on another computer with the image file To clone a partition from an image file 1 2 On the main menu click Local gt Partition gt From Image In the File Locator dialog box do one of the following m Type the path and file name of the image file Click Browse to locate the image file Specify the drive or device and select the full path name The image file may reside on a local drive When using peer to peer connections the image file is located on the slave computer Press Enter In the Source Partition dialog box select the source partition for the image file The Source Partition dialog box contains the details of all of the partitions in the image file In the License field type your license number In the Destination Drive dialog box select the destination drive The Destination Drive dialog box contains the details of every disk th
89. on sz MB Specifies the size of the partition in megabytes MB This is sz pcentip end for q vi labell 32 ntfatl6 rounded up to the nearest cylinder Specifies the size of the partition as a percentage of the total disk size not the available disk space Creates the partition at the end of the free space If this switch is not used then the partition is created at the beginning of the free space If the command line specifies that all of the available space is to be used to create the partition then the end switch is ignored Formats the new partition once it has been created Unless the ntfat16 or 32 switches are used the partition type is determined by the following m If the partition is less than 16MB FAT12 m If the partition is between 16MB and 512MB FAT16 m If the partition is greater than 512MB FAT32 Performs a quick format if used in combination with the for switch If you do not use this switch then GDisk performs a surface scan of the partition and marks any bad sectors Gives the new formatted partition the specified label when used in combination with the for switch Indicates that the partition is not formatted as FAT32 Limits primary and logical partitions to 204 MB Partitions over 16 MB are formatted as FAT16 This switch is useful if the operating system does not support FAT32 for example Windows NT4 Indicates that the partition is not formatted as FAT32 but
90. on the boot disk m Use MS DOS Include MS DOS on the boot disk For more information see Selecting a version of DOS on page 24 Type the correct path in the GhostPE exe field if the executable has been moved or you want to use a different version of Ghost The default path to the Ghost executable is in the GhostPE exe field In the Parameters field type any required command line parameters For more information see Adding command line parameters to a boot package on page 23 Click Next Do one of the following Click DHCP will assign the IP settings if your network contains a DHCP server m Click The IP settings will be statically defined and complete the fields below this option if your network does not contain a DHCP server Creating boot disks and boot images 10 11 12 13 14 15 Click Next In the Floppy Disk Drive field type the appropriate drive letter In the Number of disks to create field type the number of disks that you want to create Click Format disk s first to format the disks before disk creation Click Quick Format to perform a quick format Click Next Boot disks with CD ROM support Boot disks with CD ROM support let you access images stored on CD ROM To create a boot disk with CD ROM support 1 2 3 10 11 12 In the Ghost Boot Wizard window click CD ROM Boot Disk Click Next Select one of the following m Use PC DOS Include PC DOS on the boot disk m Us
91. onnection use a parallel connection cable and a parallel port to connect the computers For data transfer of approximately 19 25 MB min Norton Ghost provides support for the Parallel Technologies universal DirectParallel cable For peer to peer USB port connections use a USB cable that supports a host to host connection and a data transfer of approximately 20 30 MB min ECP is the best option for LPT connections and has a data transfer rate of approximately 5 MB min Norton Ghost must be running under DOS on both computers For more information see USB and DirectParallel Cables on page 103 TCP IP connections Connect the computers with an ethernet or token ring network interface card and an established network connection which includes one of the following m Crossover ethernet cable pins 1236 gt 3612 m Coaxial cable m Standard cables with hub or MAU Install a network interface card NIC SCSI tape driver To use Norton Ghost with a SCSI tape device the tape media and the tape device must have an Advanced SCSI Programming Interface ASPD driver for DOS installed The driver is installed in the Config sys file as shown in the example below device C scsitape aspi4dos sys Refer to the documentation included with the SCSI tape device for more information Removable media Removable media The removable media drive media and media drivers for use in DOS are required CD ROM usage A CD writer and bl
92. oppy disk with the GoBack drivers loaded You can then use a Norton Ghost boot disk to start Norton Ghost and take an image file For more information see the GoBack user documentation and Cloning a disk to an image file on page 29 To restore your computer start your computer from a floppy disk You can then use a Norton Ghost boot disk to start Norton Ghost and restore your computer For more information see Cloning a disk from an image file on page 31 49 Image file options Cloning dynamic disks in Windows 2000 Norton Ghost supports the cloning of simple or mirrored volumes on dynamic disks Cloning of spanned striped and RAID 5 volumes is not supported by Norton Ghost You can dump an image from a partition to a dynamic disk You can restore this image to a basic disk but not to a dynamic disk To take an image of a Windows 2000 dynamic disk or partition use the partition to image cloning functionality in Norton Ghost Select the partitions you want to clone Norton Ghost automatically interprets a dynamic disk for simple and mirrored partition types For more information see Cloning a partition to an image file on page 34 You can restore an image of a dynamic disk to a basic disk only not to a dynamic disk After you have restored the image file to a basic disk you can then use Windows 2000 Disk Manager to convert the disk to a dynamic disk To convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk you can u
93. options have been selected This is the last chance to back out 10 Do one of the following m Click Yes to proceed with the partition copy If you need to abort the process press Ctrl C but be aware that this leaves the destination drive in an unknown state Warning Only click Yes if you are sure that you want to proceed The destination partition is completely overwritten with no chance of recovering any data m Click No to return to the menu 11 Restart the destination computer when the partition copy is complete Run Symantec Disk Doctor ScanDisk or a similar utility to verify the integrity of the destination partition Cloning a partition to an image file 34 You can create an image file from a partition to use as a backup or to clone onto another partition The image file may reside on a local drive but not the one from which it is being copied Local drives include writable CD tape ZIP JAZ and LS120 Superdisk drives When using peer to peer connections the image file is created on the slave computer If you write the image file to a CD write to a bootable CD If a boot disk is placed in the floppy drive before the cloning session begins Norton Ghost copies the system files from the boot disk onto the CD Compression may affect the speed of operations When you select a compression level Norton Ghost estimates the amount of space available for the destination image file If there is insufficient spa
94. or logical DOS drive pril nth Deletes the nth primary DOS partition The default is 1 exti nth Deletes the nth extended DOS partition The default is 1 Also deletes any logical partitions in the extended partition log nth Deletes the nth logical DOS drive from the extended DOS partition p partn no Indicates the partition to delete Use the number reported by GDisk in standard display mode not using Iba or raw for partn no all Deletes all partitions qwipe Overwrites the partition s data area before deleting the partition Makes one pass of the disk dodwipe Overwrites the partition s data area before deleting the partition Makes seven passes of the disk This is the security standard for the U S Department of Defense Overwrites the partition s data area n times before deleting the customwipe partition n can be set from 1 to 100 customwipe 7 is equivalent n to dodwipe For example m gdisk 1 del all qwipe completes one pass to delete all partitions and data on disk 1 m gdisk 1 del p 2 qwipe wipes partition 2 on disk 1 with one pass m gdisk 1 diskwipe customwipe 15 wipes the entire disk with 15 passes Activate or deactivate a partition Activate or deactivate a partition A computer boots to an active partition Using the act or act switches you can choose the partition to which the computer starts Depending on the version of GDisk that you require the syntax for this
95. or more information see Command line switches on page 75 3 On the Save Settings tab click Save Settings to confirm the list of active switches listed 4 Click Accept to include the settings in the current task 39 Cloning disks and partitions 40 C H A P T Image file options Image file options include compressing an image file using CRC32 to check the image file once it is created and spanning an image across a number of image files You can also write an image file to a tape or CD This chapter contains information relevant to cloning with the utility GoBack installed and cloning dynamic disks About Norton Ghost image files The image files created with Norton Ghost have a gho extension by default They contain the entire disk or partitions of the disk Image files support m Various levels of compression m CRC32 data integrity checking a Splitting of media files Spanning across volumes Norton Ghost images contain only the actual data on a disk If you have a 9 GB drive with only 600 MB of data the Norton Ghost image is approximately 600 MB or smaller if you use compression If you also use the Ghost Explorer application an image file companion utility individual files from these image files are recovered selectively without having to restore the complete partition or disk 41 Image file options Image files and compression Image files created in Norton Ghost support several leve
96. ot sector and does not copy the remainder boot track You cannot perform partition to partition or partition to image functions with the ib switch Image disk Similar to ia Gmage all but also copies the boot track as in ib image boot extended partition tables and unpartitioned space on the disk When looking at an image with id you see the unpartitioned space and extended partitions in the list of partitions The id switch is primarily used by law enforcement agencies that require forensic images When Norton Ghost restores from an id image it relocates partitions to cylinder boundaries and adjusts partition tables accordingly Head sector and cylinder information in partition tables is adjusted to match the geometry of the destination disk Partitions are not resizeable You will need an identical or larger disk than the original Norton Ghost does not wipe the destination disk when restoring from an id image Geometry differences between disks may leave tracks on the destination disk with their previous contents Use the ia Gmage all switch instead of the id switch when copying partition to partition or partition to image An individual partition can be restored from an image created with id Image raw Copies the entire disk ignoring the partition table This is useful when a disk does not contain a partition table in the standard PC format or you do not want partitions to be realigned to track boundaries on the des
97. ou try to span over a peer to peer connection LPT USB TCP IP a disk full error message appears However splitting can be used in all situations Norton Ghost also allows size limiting of spans when spanning volumes to ensure that no span exceeds the maximum size With all image files the only constraint on the selection of the destination volume is that it must not be part of the source selection For example it cannot be on a source disk or partition if that disk or partition is to be included in the image Spanning across multiple volumes and limiting span sizes When creating an image file from a disk or partition the destination drive might have insufficient space to store the image file If Norton Ghost determines that this is the case it alerts you and asks whether to enable spanning Norton Ghost assumes that compression reduces the size of the image by one third when determining whether the image will fit Alternatively you can use the span and split command line switches to configure Norton Ghost to use image file splitting For more information see Command line switches on page 75 Before saving the disk contents to the image file Norton Ghost shows the source and destination details and offers a chance to back out The default is to back out Once the process starts the image file creation continues until the destination volume is full If you started spanning onto a JAZ disk and want to span a 3 0 GB driv
98. pe the command line parameters if the network card requires them These parameters vary from driver to driver and are usually optional with plug and play network cards Consult the documentation that came with the network card This is often in the form of a Readme txt file in the same directory as the driver itself Click Select Automatically to let Ghost determine the best multicasting mode based on the information in the packet driver If the Select Automatically mode does not work try Receive Mode 5 If that doesn t work try Receive Mode 6 Although Norton Ghost does not support the multicasting of Ghost images it is necessary to set a multicasting mode 21 Creating boot disks with the Ghost Boot Wizard Adding NDIS2 drivers to the Ghost Boot Wizard NDIS2 drivers work with the Microsoft Network Client NDIS2 drivers are DOS drivers that load from the DOS Config sys file To add an NDIS2 driver to the Ghost Boot Wizard 1 In the Template Properties window on the NDIS Driver tab click Setup Locate the NDIS2 driver In many cases Ghost can automatically determine the other parameters for your network When locating the directory that contains the driver look for a folder named Ndis or Ndis2 If you have a choice between DOS and OS2 folders select DOS Type the DOS file name for the NDIS2 driver In the Driver Name field type the internal name of the driver The internal name of the driver is used when gener
99. pear smaller than their actual sizes The Norton Ghost executable can only access the shown destination size The remaining space is not used The Norton Ghost executable fails if you try to overwrite any of the following m Windows swap files m Registry files m Open files 25 Cloning disks and partitions You cannot run Norton Ghost within Windows NT Windows 2000 Linux OS 2 or other nonDOS operating systems To run Norton Ghost on a computer running a nonDOS operating system use a Ghost boot disk To start the Norton Ghost executable m Do one of the following m Start the computer using a Ghost Boot Disk For more information see Creating boot disks and boot images on page 16 m For Windows 98 computers start the computer in DOS At the DOS prompt type C gt progra 1 symantec Norton 1 ghostpe exe Running Norton Ghost in DOS may require additional DOS drivers to let Norton Ghost access and use some hardware Finding the Norton Ghost license number 26 The Norton Ghost license number is entered when you dump an image file to a computer The license number for your copy of Norton Ghost is displayed each time you start Norton Ghost To find the license number for Norton Ghost m Start Norton Ghost The license number is displayed on the splash screen in the License Number field Horton Ghost 2002 Copyright CC 1998 2001 Symantec Corp WioutiHorson bhoshienpe Navigating without a mouse N
100. ppy disk Click Next Adding network drivers to the Ghost Boot Wizard The Ghost Boot Wizard includes drivers to over 80 network interface cards If your driver isn t in the list you can add it to the wizard so that it s set up the next time you need it 20 To begin adding a network driver to the Ghost Boot Wizard 1 2 In the Network Interface Card window click Add Select one of the following m Packet Driver m NDIS2 Driver Many manufacturers ship both drivers with their network cards so you have a choice of which one to use Click OK Adding network drivers to the Ghost Boot Wizard Adding packet drivers to the Ghost Boot Wizard Packet drivers are usually DOS executables with com or exe file extensions that load from the Autoexec bat file before Norton Ghost loads Norton Ghost communicates directly with the packet driver to use the services provided by the network card To add a packet driver to the Ghost Boot Wizard 1 In the Template Properties window on the Packet Driver tab in the Driver Executable field type the packet driver location so that the Ghost Boot Wizard can copy the file to the current template Packet drivers are usually included on the driver disk supplied with the network card If you are installing the packet driver from the original disks that came with your network interface card the packet driver should be in a directory called Packet or Pktdrv In the Parameters field ty
101. rives Norton Ghost support of SCSI tape drives allows the storage of a single image file onto a tape When written onto the tape there is no associated file system used which means that you are unable to access the tape from a drive letter as if it were another storage drive SCSI tapes do not support spanning to multiple tapes 45 Image file options 46 When using tape drives with Norton Ghost the tape drive can be selected as the source or destination device in the File Locator window Each SCSI tape device is shown as MTx where x is a number starting at 0 and increasing incrementally for each drive present For example the following screen shows a tape drive MTO available for use File name to copy image to PROGRA 1 RECYCLED SOFTHARE WINDOWS For Norton Ghost to access SCSI tape drives a DOS ASPI driver must be installed prior to use For more information see Setting up the hardware and transfer methods on page 99 Norton Ghost in its default mode performs well with most SCSI tape devices In some situations with older SCSI tape devices and possibly with unreliable tapes Norton Ghost may need to be configured to slow down or alter the way it uses the tape device For more information see Command line switches on page 75 Note Ghost Explorer cannot access an image stored on tape Image files and CD writers Image files and CD writers Norton Ghost support of SCSI and IDE CD write
102. rs allows the storage of a single image file onto one or more CD R RW The CDs can be read by any modern CD reader USB CD writers are not supported by Norton Ghost When using CD writers with Norton Ghost a writer can be selected as the destination device in the File Locator window Each writer is shown as CD Rx where x is a number starting at one and increasing incrementally for each writer present For example the following screen shows a CD writer available for use File name to copy image to For Norton Ghost to access SCSI CD writers a DOS ASPI driver must be installed prior to use For more information see Boot di h CD R Upp on page 19 47 Image file options 48 Norton Ghost should work with most SCSI and IDE writers produced in 2000 or later It may or may not work with older models Use the latest firmware available for your CD writer An IDE CD writer will perform best if it is mounted on the secondary IDE controller If your CD R device is not listed use the Check Image feature of Norton Ghost to ensure that your image can be restored For more information see Cloning a disk to an image file on page 29 Norton Ghost has been tested with the following m Acer CRW4432A Acer 8432A use firmware 5 FV or newer m Creative Labs 4224 Creative Labs Blaster 8432 m HP 8200 9110 9210e m Imation IMW08022015S omega ZipCD Phillips PCRW404 m Lacie 8424 external Lacie 8 2 20 SCSI external sensitive
103. rtition Image files create backup copies of complete drives or partitions The image file is cloned onto one or more partitions or disks replacing existing data About Norton Ghost What you can do with Norton Ghost Using Norton Ghost cloning functionality you can perform upgrades of your hard drive and backup and recover your computer fast and reliably Upgrade your hard drive Use Norton Ghost to create a copy of your hard disk before upgrading to another one Create an image file on removable media or clone directly to another computer using a network USB or parallel connection For even greater flexibility Norton Ghost supports Linux EXT2 as well as Microsoft FAT and NTFS file systems Norton Ghost determines the partition sizes for the destination drive automatically Once the hard disk is installed you can restore saved files by cloning the old hard disk onto the new hard disk or restoring a saved image file Back up and recover your computer Use Norton Ghost to create an image file of your computer on removable media such as CD R RW ZIP disks and JAZ disks and back up an entire hard disk or selected partitions Use it for weekly backups or specific events such as the installation of a new operating system If you run out of space when backing up to a removable disk Norton Ghost prompts you to insert another disk or save to an alternate location Once an image is created you can use Norton Ghost to restore the har
104. s created by Norton Ghost V3 with compression You can check the Norton Ghost version in which your image file was created in Ghost Explorer For more information see Determining Norton Ghost image file version on page 55 To view an image file 1 Open Ghost Explorer For more information see To open Ghost Explorer on page 52 On the File menu click Open Select an image file Click Open a BB W N On the File menu click Properties to view the image file properties Restoring a file or directory from an image file Restoring a file or directory from an image file You can restore a file or directory directly from an image file using Ghost Explorer To restore a file or directory from an image file 1 In Ghost Explorer open the image file Select the file or directory to be restored On the File menu click Restore Select the location to which you want to restore the file or directory a A W N Click Restore to restore the file or directory to the chosen location Note You can also drag and drop a file from Ghost Explorer to Windows Explorer to restore it Modifying image files in Ghost Explorer You can use Ghost Explorer to add files or directories from Windows Explorer to any image file that was created in Norton Ghost version 6 0 or greater and is not NTFS You can also delete files from any image file that was created in Norton Ghost v5 1c or a later version and is not NTFS You
105. se GDisk Use the switch gdisk mbr wipe to delete all partitions from the disk However this method destroys all data on the disk For more information see Reinitializing the Master Boot Record on page 62 You can only take a disk image of a dynamic disk if you use the image all ia switch The ia switch performs a sector by sector copy of the entire disk The disk on which the image is to be loaded must be identical to the source disk in every way This function is only useful for creating a backup of an image If you load an image created using ia onto a drive with different geometry Windows 2000 does not understand the dynamic disk If you load an ia disk image of a dynamic disk onto an SCSI hard drive and you get the error Destination drive too small you must load the ASPI driver for the SCSI card Without an ASPI driver Norton Ghost does not always have the correct size of the SCSI drive and cannot distinguish if the drive is large enough to hold the image Note You should not take an image all of a dynamic disk as the method is slow and the image file would be very big 50 Using Ghost Explorer to modify image file contents The image files that are created when a computer s hard disk or partition is dumped contain data applications and registry settings These image files can be loaded onto client computers as part of a cloning task However the Ghost Explorer utility also lets you view alter add an
106. t Form Index C H A Pitas About Norton Ghost Norton Ghost is a fast and reliable software solution to satisfy all of your computer disk cloning and copying needs The high performance utilities help you upgrade back up and recover entire disks or selected partitions Norton Ghost can determine the partition sizes for the destination drive automatically You can clone directly between two computers using a network USB or parallel connection Designed for technically proficient users Norton Ghost is based on Symantec Ghost Enterprise 7 0 Norton Ghost includes the following features m Fast performance Norton Ghost is based on Symantec Ghost Enterprise 7 0 with improved performance You can clone and restore image files faster than ever m File system support You can clone all FAT NTFS and EXT2 file systems Norton Ghost also supports cloning of Windows 2000 and XP Home Pro You can now clone Linux EXT2 files larger than 4 GB a Ability to write to a CD R RW You can write an image directly to a CD R RW and make the CD disk bootable m Image file management You can modify image files by adding and deleting files m Disk and partition management You can run GDisk from DOS or in a command shell from within Windows to manage partitions and disks How Norton Ghost works The basis of Norton Ghost is a cloning function that creates an image file containing all of the information required to recreate a complete disk or pa
107. t you want to use Ensure that all hard drives are installed correctly and that the BIOS of the system is configured and shows the valid parameters of the drives Peer to peer connections Peer to peer connections enable Norton Ghost to run on two computers transferring drives and partitions and using image files between them The following table describes different cloning situations and the master slave relationship Action Master Slave Disk to disk copy Disk to image file copy Image file to disk copy Partition to partition copy Partition to image file copy Image file to partition copy Computer containing source disk Computer containing source disk Computer containing destination disk Computer containing source partition Computer containing source partition Computer containing destination partition Computer containing destination disk Computer receiving destination image file Computer containing source image file Computer containing destination partition Computer receiving destination image file Computer containing source image file 99 Setting up the hardware and transfer methods Select which computer is the master the computer from which you control the connection and which is the slave the other computer participating in the connection All operator input must occur on the master computer LPT or USB connections On an LPT parallel port c
108. tec and Norton Ghost are trademarks of Symantec Corporation Other brands and products are trademarks of their respective holder s 2001 Symantec Corporation All rights reserved Printed in the U S A 9 symantec 120 I N D E X Symbols e filename switch 76 switch 80 filename switch 75 A Abort log 76 111 Activating Partitions 67 afile filename switch 76 ASPI driver 100 auto switch 76 Automation Clone switch and examples 89 93 Close on completion 80 Quiet mode 85 Restart on completion 85 Switches 75 88 Version checking 87 88 B bfc x switch 76 Boot disk 26 Boot menu 68 bootcd switch 76 C Cables 103 CD disk Bootable 29 34 38 47 CD writers 38 47 Supported writers 47 CD R RW Cloning to 38 CD ROM 101 chkimg filename switch 76 clone switch 76 89 Cloning Compression 42 Speed 42 To a CD R RW 38 Windows 2000 50 Command line 39 Examples 93 96 Norton Ghost 75 88 Compression 34 42 Copy command 89 crc32 switch 43 77 77 78 crcignore switch 77 Creating Partition 60 D Data checking 43 Data compression 42 dd switch 77 Deactivating Partitions 67 Decompression 42 Deleting Partitions 65 dfile filename switch 77 di switch 78 Diagnostics 111 113 Disk Large 73 Status 62 dl number switch 78 DOS MS DOS 24 PC DOS 24 dst switch 91 Dump Command 89 Dynamic disks 50 Search the online help index for more information 121 F 32 switch 78 64 switch 78 fatli
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110. tination disk Some operating systems may not be able to access unaligned partitions Partitions cannot be resized on restore and you need an identical or larger disk 81 Command line switches jl x filename lockinfo locktype Type Ipm 82 Creates a log file to assist in diagnosing problems The amount of information logged is set by the log level x The log level x can be E errors S statistics W warnings I information or A all in increasing order of logging detail The file name indicates the path and file name of the log to be created In general the error and statistic levels do not affect session performance All other levels may reduce performance and should be used for diagnostic purposes only Shows the type code and information stored in the BIOS or the Pentium II Processor ID For example Type Based On Value M Manufacturer Compaq P Product name Deskpro EN Series SFF V Version Compaq S Serial number H925CKH60020 U UUID 2DA9379B4707D31185E8C800A4F232BC C M amp P combined Compaq Deskpro EN Series SFF I PIII ID 0000067200028E72A6994A20 Lets you lock an image file for use with a specific set of computers defined by the type chosen and the source computer For example ghost locktype P creates an image that can be used only on systems that have the same product name type as the source computer LPT master mode This switch causes Norton Ghost to automatically go into LPT mast
111. tion of FAT32 partitions and allows the creation of FAT16 partitions up to 4 GB Note DOS and Windows 9x do not support FAT16 partitions using 64 K clusters and are limited to 2 GB FAT16 partitions Deleting and wiping your disk GDisk lets you delete data and partitions on your disk or wipe your entire disk You cannot delete a dynamic disk partition with the del switch The switch del all deletes all partitions that are on the disk Any other space that has not been used for creating a partition is not deleted Deleting an extended partition also deletes any logical partition within it The diskwipe switch wipes the entire disk partitions partition table MBR and all used and unused spaces Depending on the version of GDisk that you require the syntax for the delete switch is one of the following m GDisk gdisk disk del pril nth ext nth log nth p partn no all qwipe dodwipe customwipe n m GDisk32 gdisk32 disk del pril nth extl nth log nth p partn no all qwipe dodwipe customwipe n 65 Managing partitions using GDisk 66 Depending on the version of GDisk that you require the syntax for the diskwipe switch is one of the following m GDisk gdisk disk diskwipe dodwipe customwipe n mw GDisk32 gdisk32 disk diskwipe dodwipe customwipe n Switch Explanation disk Represents the physical fixed disk 1 to 8 del Deletes a DOS partition
112. tition is to remain the same size on the destination as it was on the source This is referred to as fixed size Indicates that the partition may be made bigger or smaller depending on how much disk space is available This is the default The sizes of all partitions remain fixed The sizes of all partitions except the first remain fixed The first partition uses the remaining space The sizes of all partitions except the last remain fixed The last partition uses the remaining space Clone switch syntax Examples of clone switch usage The following table describes clone switches and their functions Switch Function ghostpe exe clone mode copy src 1 dst 2 ghostpe exe clone mode dump src 2 dst c drive2 gho lpm The slave computer can be started with ghostpe exe lps ghostpe exe clone mode pcopy src 1 2 dst 2 1 ghostpe exe clone mode load src g 2prtdisk gho dst 2sze1 60P sze2 40P ghostpe exe clone mode copy src 1 dst 2 sze2 F ghostpe exe clone mode load src g 3prtdi sk gho dst 1 sze1 450M sze2 1599M sze3 2047M ghostpe exe clone mode load src g 2prtdisk gho dst 1 szeL ghostpe exe clone mode copy src 2 2 dst MTO ghostpe exe clone mode pdump src 2 1 4 6 dst d part146 gho Copy local disk one to local disk two Connect a master computer using LPT to another computer running Norton Ghost in slave mode and save a disk image of local disk two to the remote file c dr
113. ve a list of directories and files tv Save a verbose listing of directories and files tlvfl filename Save the list to the file specified For more information see Saving a list of contents of an image file on page 54 If Ghost Explorer reports that a spanned or split image is corrupt without prompting for the second part of the image it may not recognize that the image is split Starting with the split argument forces Ghost Explorer to treat an image as a split image The image index created by versions of Norton Ghost prior to 5 1c did not handle long file names containing double byte characters correctly such as file names in Asian or Eastern European languages Ghost Explorer may be able to show these names properly by reading them directly from the image file instead of from the index However the loading of the image is much slower Use the switch ignoreindex to force this behavior Managing partitions using GDisk GDisk lets you create partitions reinitialize Master Boot Records and delete and wipe your disks in many different ways Two versions of GDisk are supplied with Norton Ghost m GDisk Runs in DOS m GDisk32 Runs from the command line in a Windows operating system All GDisk command line switches can be run with GDisk32 GDisk is a complete replacement for the Fdisk and Format utilities that offers m On the fly formatting m Extensive partition reporting m High security disk wiping m The
114. you want to specify There may be none For more information see Clone switch syntax on page 89 cns CRC32 crcignore dfile filename Reverts the naming of spanned files to the system used by versions of Norton Ghost previous to Norton Ghost 2002 If this switch is not used then the naming of spanned files conforms to Microsoft application guidelines For example With cns Without cns image gho image gho image 001 image001 ghs image 002 image002 ghs The CRC32 switch lets you make a list of the files on a disk or partition or create an image file with CRC values and to verify the list against the original or a clone The purpose is to allow both quick listing of the contents of an image file and verification that a disk created by Norton Ghost contains the same files as the original For more information see CRC32 switch usage on page 94 Ignores CRC errors CRC errors indicate data corruption This switch overrides the CRC error detection and may let a corrupted image file be used Using this switch leaves the corrupted files in an unknown state Dumps disk metrics information to the dump log file Ghststat dmp The file location can be altered using the dfile filename switch Changes the path and file name of the dump log file created using the dd switch This switch cannot be included in the Ghost switch text file 77 Command line switches di dl number f32 f64

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