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  • Introducing Norton Ghost
    • About Norton Ghost
    • What is new in Norton Ghost
    • Hiding or showing the Advanced page
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  • Ensuring the recovery of your computer
    • About ensuring the recovery of your computer
    • Testing Symantec Recovery Disk
    • If driver validation fails
    • Creating a custom Symantec Recovery Disk CD
  • Getting Started
    • About key product components
    • How you use Norton Ghost
    • Starting Norton Ghost
    • Configuring Norton Ghost default options
      • Selecting a default backup destination
      • Adjusting the effect of a backup on computer performance
        • Enabling network throttling
      • Adjusting default tray icon settings
      • Managing file types
      • Using nicknames for external drives
      • Configuring default FTP settings for use with Offsite Copy
      • Logging Norton Ghost messages
      • Enabling email notifications for product (event) messages
  • Best practices for backing up your data
    • About backing up your data
    • About choosing a backup type
    • Best practices for backing up
      • About backups
      • Before you back up
      • During a back up
      • When a back up is finished
    • Additional tips about backups
    • After defining your backup job
      • Viewing the properties of a backup job
    • About selecting a backup destination
    • About backing up dual-boot computers
  • Backing up entire drives
    • About defining a drive-based backup
    • Defining a drive-based backup
      • Related Drives options
      • Recovery point type options
      • Backup destination options
      • Recovery point options
      • Advanced scheduling options
      • About files that are excluded from drive-based backups
      • About network credentials
      • About running command files during a backup
      • Advanced options for drive-based backups
        • Editing advanced backup options
        • About recovery point encryption
        • Verifying the integrity of a recovery point
        • Viewing the progress of a backup
    • Compression levels for drive-based backups
    • Running a one-time backup from Norton Ghost
    • About running a one-time backup from Symantec Recovery Disk
      • Running a one-time backup from Symantec Recovery Disk
    • About Offsite Copy
    • How Offsite Copy works
      • About using external drives as your Offsite Copy destination
      • About using a network server as your Offsite Copy destination
      • About using an FTP server as your Offsite Copy destination
  • Backing up files and folders
    • Defining a file and folder backup
    • About folders that are excluded by default from file and folder backups
  • Running and managing backup jobs
    • Running an existing backup job immediately
    • Running a backup with options
      • Backup options
    • Adjusting the speed of a backup
    • Stopping a task
    • Verifying that a backup is successful
    • Editing backup settings
    • Enabling event-triggered backups
      • About Symantec ThreatCon
    • Editing a backup schedule
    • Turning off a backup job
    • Deleting backup jobs
    • Adding users who can back up your computer
  • Backing up remote computers from your computer
    • About backing up other computers from your computer
    • Adding computers to the Computer List
    • Deploying the Norton Ghost Agent
    • Using the Norton Ghost Agent
    • About managing the Norton Ghost Agent through Windows Services
    • About best practices for using services
      • Opening Windows Services
      • Starting or stopping the Norton Ghost Agent service
      • Setting up recovery actions when the Norton Ghost Agent does not start
      • Viewing Norton Ghost Agent dependencies
    • Controlling access to Norton Ghost
      • Running Norton Ghost using different user rights
  • Monitoring the status of your backups
    • About monitoring backups
      • Rescanning a computer's hard disk
    • Monitoring backup protection from the Home page
    • Monitoring backup protection from the Status page
    • About SNMP traps
      • About the Norton Ghost management information base
    • Customizing the status reporting of a drive (or file and folder backups)
    • Viewing drive details
    • Improving the protection level of a drive
    • About using event log information to troubleshoot problems
  • Exploring the contents of a recovery point
    • About exploring recovery points
    • Exploring a recovery point through Windows Explorer
      • Mounting a recovery point from Windows Explorer
    • Opening and restoring files within a recovery point
    • About using a search engine
    • Dismounting a recovery point drive
    • Viewing the drive properties of a recovery point
  • Managing backup destinations
    • About backup destinations
    • About how backup data works
      • About drive-based backups
      • About file and folder backups
    • Managing recovery point storage
      • Cleaning up old recovery points
      • Deleting a recovery point set
      • Deleting recovery points within a set
      • Making copies of recovery points
    • Running a one-time virtual conversion
    • Defining a virtual conversion job
      • Running an existing virtual conversion job immediately
      • Viewing the properties of a virtual conversion job
      • Viewing the progress of a virtual conversion job
      • Editing a virtual conversion job
      • Deleting a virtual conversion job
    • About managing file and folder backup data
      • Viewing how much file and folder backup data is stored
      • Limiting the number of file versions to keep
      • Manually deleting files from your file and folder backup
      • Finding versions of a file or folder
    • Automating management of backup data
    • Moving your backup destination
  • Recovering files, folders, or entire drives
    • About recovering lost data
    • Recovering files and folders by using file and folder backup data
    • Recovering files and folders using a recovery point
      • About opening files and folders stored in a recovery point
      • About finding the files or folders you want
    • Recovering a secondary drive
      • Recovery options
    • Restoring using LightsOut Restore
      • Summary of the LightsOut Restore process
      • Starting the LightsOut Restore Wizard
        • LightsOut Restore options for Symantec Recovery Disk
        • Reconfiguring Using the LightsOut Restore Wizard
  • Recovering a computer
    • About recovering a computer
    • Starting a computer by using Symantec Recovery Disk
      • Configuring a computer to boot from a CD
    • How to prepare to recover a computer
      • Scanning for viruses
        • Locating the latest virus definitions
      • Checking a hard disk for errors
    • Recovering a computer
      • Edit target drive and options
    • Recovering a computer from a virtual disk file
      • Virtual disk recovery options
    • Recovering files and folders using Symantec Recovery Disk
      • Exploring files and folders on your computer using Symantec Recovery Disk
    • About using the networking tools in Symantec Recovery Disk
      • Starting networking services
      • Using the pcAnywhere thin host for a remote recovery
        • Remotely connecting to the pcAnywhere thin host
      • Mapping a network drive from within Symantec Recovery Disk
      • Configuring network connection settings
        • Getting a static IP address
        • Getting a static IP address if pinging is unsuccessful
    • About viewing properties of recovery points and drives
      • Viewing the properties of a recovery point
      • Viewing the properties of a drive within a recovery point
    • About the Support Utilities
  • Copying a drive
    • About copying a drive
    • Preparing to copy drives
    • Copying one hard drive to another hard drive
      • About drive-to-drive copying options
  • Using a search engine to search recovery points
    • About using a search engine to search recovery points
    • Enabling search engine support
    • Recovering files using Google Desktop's Search Desktop feature
      • About finding a file using Google Desktop
  • About backing up Microsoft virtual environments
    • About backing up Microsoft virtual hard disks
    • About backing up and restoring Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines