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Glossary
external mass storage device A device that is attached to your computer with a network or cable. that is capable of storing large amounts of data. For example, a hard disk attached to a computer with a USB or FireWire cable.
hard disk | A physical disk in your computer or attached as a external device. |
image file | A file created using Norton Ghost. An image file of a disk or partition is |
| created and is used to create exact duplicates of the original disk or |
| partition. |
IP address | Internet Protocol Address. This term refers to a number that uniquely |
| identifies a computer on a network or on the Internet. IP addresses for |
| computers on a |
| The address for a computer must be unique within a network. |
load | See restore. |
native copy | Copies only the disk structure information and the files, rather than all |
| sectors on the disk. In addition, on FAT partitions, native cloning saves the |
| files contiguously. That is, when you write the image to the destination |
| drive, the files are no longer fragmented. |
NIC | Network Interface Card. The NIC is a physical device inside a computer |
| which coordinates communications between the computer and a network |
partition | A divided part of a hard disk. An operating system sees a partition as a |
| separate disk if it recognizes the file system. |
primary partition | A hard disk can contain up to four primary partitions, or up to three |
| primary partitions and one extended partition. Most hard disks have this |
| partitioning structure. |
restore | Overwrite all existing data on a computer either with an image file or |
| directly with a copy of another computer. To write information to a disk or |
| partition. In Norton Ghost, this equates to the term load. |
sector copy | A copy of an entire disk, including the boot track, all sectors, and |
| unpartitioned space. A sector copy does not filter extraneous or erroneous |
| information from the boot track. |
Virtual Partition | A partition that is created when you perform a backup, restore, clone, or |
| other Norton Ghost operation from Windows. The Ghost operation is |
| performed from the Virtual Partition. |
