76Creating boot disks with the Ghost Boot Wizard

Creating boot disks and boot images

Table 6-1

Boot disk types

 

 

 

Intended use of boot disk

Ghost Boot Wizard options to select

 

 

Back up a computer directly to an

Standard Ghost Boot Disk

image file on a DVD on a DVD

See “Standard boot disks” on page 76.

writer supported by Norton Ghost.

 

Restore a computer from an image

 

file on a DVD on a DVD drive

 

supported by Norton Ghost.

 

 

 

Restore a computer from a Ghost

CD/DVD Startup Disk with Ghost

image file on a CD-ROM on a CD-

 

R/RW drive not supported by

See “Boot disks with CD-ROM and DVD support” on page 81.

Norton Ghost. The image file was not stored on the CD-ROM using Norton Ghost. Contains generic CD-ROM drivers.

Access files other than a Ghost image file on a CD-ROM.

CD/DVD Startup Disk with Ghost

See “Boot disks with CD-ROM and DVD support” on page 81.

Map a drive on a workstation to a shared resource on a server and use Norton Ghost to clone, back up, or restore.

Drive Mapping Boot Disk

See “Boot disks with drive mapping network support” on page 82.

Standard boot disks

The Ghost Boot Wizard creates a boot disk that does any one or a combination of the following:

Runs Ghost.exe for local operations.

Lets you write Ghost images directly to a CD-R/RW on a CD writer supported by Norton Ghost.

See “Image files and CD/DVD writers” on page 112.

Lets you write Ghost images directly to a DVD on a DVD writer supported by Norton Ghost.

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