How to clone a hard drive with Norton Ghost

Many a times you want to take the backup of your files and store your data on other drives. My previous thread also talked about How to clone a Hard Disk Drive. But now I am providing you some steps on how to clone your hard drive using Norton Ghost 14.0. Norton Ghost has maintained a well-deserved reputation when cloning is concerned. How you ever cloned or copied your drive? Here are the simple and easy steps:

1. Start Norton Ghost 14.0.
2. In the left pane, click Tasks.
3. In the right pane, click Run or Manage Backups.
4. Click Define New.
5. Click Back up my computer, and then click Next.
6. In the Drives panel, click a single drive to select it, or hold down the Ctrl key and click multiple drives.
7. Click Next.
8. In the "Recovery Point Type" panel, select the type of recovery point to create, and then click Next.
9. In the Backup Destination panel, click Browse, and then navigate to the drive and folder where the recovery point will be saved. If you want to add an Offsite Copy location, click Add and then add the Offsite location (i.e. Local folder, Shared folder on network or FTP server).
10. Click Next.
11. In the Options panel, type a name for the recovery point, and then click Next.
12. In the Backup Time panel, if you want to schedule the backup, click Schedule and configure the scheduling options such as Start time and days in a week. If you keep the Schedule option unchecked, backup will not run unless you run it manually.
13. Click Next.
14. In the "Completing the Define Backup Wizard" panel, review the options that you have set, and then check Run backup now.
15. Click Finish to start the backup.

Norton Ghost 14.0

Key Technologies

• Creates full system and file backups
• Restores from system failures
• Saves recovery points to offsite locations
• Symantec ThreatCon integration

Features

• Full system backup (disk image)—Backs up everything on a hard drive or partition.
• File and folder backup—Backs up only the specific files and folders you choose rather than saving an entire drive.
• NEW FTP backup—Copies recovery points to a FTP site for easier offsite backup management.
• NEW Offsite backup—backs up your files to NAS (Network-Attached Storage) devices.
• NEW Symantec ThreatCon integration— triggers incremental backups whenever ThreatCon reaches a specified threat level. Great for computers without virus protection.
• Incremental and differential backup—Backs up only files that have changed.
• EXCLUSIVE! Google Desktop integration—Makes data recovery even faster with searchable backup indexes.
• LightsOut Restore—Restores your system with an on-disk software recovery environment—no bootable CD required.
• EXCLUSIVE!: Remote management—Controls other Norton Ghost installations (12.0 or higher) on your local area network.
• Advanced compression and encryption—Minimizes storage space and helps keep sensitive documents safe.