Wednesday, August 4, 2010

How to backup your HDD into image & restore it back using Ghost

Backup your hdd into image file
1. Boot the computer with bootable CD that can support CDROM.
2. Insert Ghost software CD and execute the ghost software.
3. Local --> Partition --> To Image
4. Select local source drive, then click ok
5. Select the source partition, then press enter and click ok
6. Choose the path and name the image file then select save
7. You have 3 option to choose whether want to compress the image file [No, Fast, High]
8. Select Yes to process with the partition image creation

Restore you image to HDD
1. Boot the computer with bootable CD that can support CDROM.
2. Use fdisk command to activate the partition
3. Fdisk "Do you wish to enable large disk support (Y/N). Choose Y
4. Fdisk "Should NTFS partitions on all drives be treated as large (Y/N). Choose N
5. Fdisk Enter choice:[1], Key in 2 [2=Set active partition], then press ENTER
6. Fdisk Enter the number of the partition you want to make active [ ]; press 1 then press ENTER (you will see the Status at Partition 1 set as A (active)
7. Press ESC to return back to the command prompt

8. Insert Ghost software CD and execute the ghost software.
9. Local --> Partition --> From Image
10. Choose the image file from the folder, then click OPEN
11. Select the source partition then press ENTER and click OK
12. Select the destination drive then press ENTER
13. Select destination partition, then press OK
14. Select "YES" to proceed with the partition restore

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