How to Use Symantec Ghost

Contents
Creating bootable media (USB or CD)........................................................................................................... 1
Imaging a hard drive ..................................................................................................................................... 4
Restoring an image to a hard drive ............................................................................................................... 6

Creating bootable media (USB or CD)

1. Open the Ghost Boot Wizard

2. Select Windows PE for the Pre OS (should be the default selection)

3. Select Standard Ghost Boot Disk

4. Use default client type settings

5. Use default (blank) network client configuration

6. Use default network client address settings

7. Select a destination drive (USB or CD)
a. Select USB Disk if you want to create a bootable USB drive and choose the device you
want to use

b. Select CD/DVD ROM to create a bootable CD and choose the CD/DVD drive to use

8. Select any additional files (leave empty)

9. Review settings (click Next to create bootable media)

10. Once finished, your USB or CD can be used to boot into Ghost to image or restore systems.
Imaging a hard drive
1. Insert your bootable media as well as a separate, NTFS-formatted, USB or external hard drive
(on which to save the image file) and boot the machine. You will need at least 80GB free space
in order to save the image.
2. When the loading screen appears, hit F12 to enter the Boot Device Menu

3. Select USB Device for a USB drive or Onboard or USB CD-ROM Drive for a CD

4. Wait for Ghost to load

5. Select Local > Disk > To Image

6. Choose which drive you want to image (typically the first one listed)

7. Select a drive, browse to a location to save the image file, and give it a name/description. If you
have two USB drives inserted, the FAT drive is the bootable USB and the NTFS drive is where you
will save the image.
 8. Click Save and select Fast compression. Click Yes to begin the image creation process.

9. Once complete, you can Quit to exit Ghost, or you can continue to step 2 of the next section to
restore an image to the current hard drive.

Restoring an image to a hard drive

1. Insert your bootable media as well as the drive containing the image you want to restore. As you
boot the machine, perform steps 2-4 of the previous section to boot into Ghost
2. Select Local > Disk > From Image

3. Browse to the location of the .GHO image file and select it

4. Select the destination drive (typically the first one listed)

5. Select the appropriate partition if you have more than one (typically C:\). Do not edit the size.

6. Select OK and then Yes to begin the restore process.

7. Once complete, you can exit Ghost to boot into your newly imaged machine.