
Glossary
boot disk | A disk that contains the Norton Ghost executable and any necessary drivers. |
| You start a computer from the boot disk and start Norton Ghost to perform |
| a cloning operation. Any drivers required to run supported hardware can be |
| saved onto the boot disk. |
cloning | Creating a replica of a specified hard disk of a computer. |
command line | The direct DOS interface that lets you type commands to be executed. |
create | To copy the contents of a hard disk or partition to an image file. This |
| includes the disk system area (for example, the partition table) and the data |
| contents. To create an image file of a computer. In Norton Ghost, this |
| equates to the terms backup and dump. |
DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. This program is used on client- |
| server networks, as opposed to |
| DHCP, the network includes a DHCP server that automatically assigns IP |
| addresses to computers on the network as needed. Each time that a |
| computer disconnects from the network and then reconnects, the DHCP |
| server assigns a new IP address. Most |
| DHCP server or a Bootp server. Bootp is a program that performs the same |
| function as DHCP. When a computer is not on a network, or the network |
| does not have a DHCP server or similar server, then the computer uses a |
| static IP address. The computer static IP address does not change until is it |
| changed manually. A static IP address is retained during a system restart. |
DOS | Disk Operating System. DOS can be run from within Windows from a |
| command shell, but you cannot run Norton Ghost from a command shell. |
| A Windows 9x computer can be restarted into DOS. Windows NT/Me/XP/ |
| 2000 computers cannot be restarted into DOS except with the use of a boot |
| disk containing DOS. |
dump | See create. |
dynamic disk | A proprietary disk partitioning structure used by Microsoft Windows 2000/ |
| XP. Dynamic disks can be created and deleted within the operating system |
| without having to reboot. Dynamic disks cannot be accessed by other |
| operating systems. |