Creating boot disks with the Ghost Boot Wizard

Creating boot disks and boot images

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Creating boot disks and boot images

The processes for creating boot images and disks can include any of the following features:

■Support for CD-R/RW, DVD, LPT, USB, and FireWire

■Network support for TCP/IP peer-to-peer connections

■Support for reading an image from a CD-ROM

■Support for mapping network drives

See Table 6-1to decide which boot disk you should make.

Table 6-1

Boot disk types

 

 

 

Intended use of boot disk

Ghost Boot Wizard options to select

 

 

Local use of Norton Ghost:

You can use either of the following options:

■

Disk-to-disk clone

■ Standard Ghost Boot Disk

■

Partition-to-partition clone

See “Standard boot disks” on page 76.

■ Disk or partition backup to local

■ Peer-to-Peer Network Boot Disk

 

disk or partition

See “Boot disks with network support”

■ Disk or partition backup to local

on page 79.

 

 

JAZ or ZIP drive

 

■ Disk or partition restore from local

 

 

disk or partition

 

■ Disk or partition restore from local

 

 

JAZ or ZIP drive

 

 

 

■ Clone, back up, or restore over peer-

Standard Ghost Boot Disk

 

to-peer connection between two

See “Standard boot disks” on page 76.

 

computers using LPT or USB cable.

 

 

 

 

■ Clone, back up, or restore over TCP/

Peer-to-Peer Network Boot Disk

 

IP peer-to-peer connection with

See “Boot disks with network support” on

 

network support between two

 

page 79.

 

computers

 

 

 

 

 

 

■ Back up a computer directly to an

Standard Ghost Boot Disk

 

image file on a CD-ROM on a CD

 

writer supported by Norton Ghost.

■Restore a computer from an image file on a CD-ROM on a CD-R/RW drive supported by Norton Ghost. See “Image files and CD/DVD writers” on page 112.

See “Standard boot disks” on page 76.

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