Those commands create a new Master Boot Record, update the partition bootsector code, delete the old corrupted Boot Configuration Data file and create a new one. ❹ Restart the computer and remove the source installation media. ❸ Execute on Command Prompt the following instructions: *Pressing Shift+F10 keys bring the command prompt in windows 7 installation wizard ( )* This keyboard shortcut opens Command Prompt before boot.įig 2. ❷ When the Windows setup wizard shows up, simultaneously press the Shift + F10 keys on your keyboard.
#NORTON GHOST IMAGE PC#
❶ Boot the second PC from the same Windows 7 installation DVD or USB stick you used when installing the first PC. All what you need to do is to execute step by step the following instructions to get the problem solved: What happened was that NGhost cloned the entire partition but for some reason corrupted the Master Boot Record (MBR) and the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) file. Just in case that the same thing happened to you.do not panic ok.just keep reading!
Then i grabbed the nex PC in the queue, created a primary active partition with same size as the base one and restored the Windows 7 image.everything was ok until the moment i restarted the second PC. I proceeded with installing the base OS and a serie of programs and utilities commonly used by most users in the enterprise network i manage.took my Live CD, ran NGhost and cloned the active (bootable) partition of my base HDD. So i was happy to have on hand a Live CD with a handful of tech tools and one of them was NGhost on its latest version. The Operative System choosen was Windows 7 64-bit Professional version.
#NORTON GHOST IMAGE INSTALL#
Recently i needed to install a set of 8 PCs all with same tech specifications. It is a time saving tool that can improve your work by manually installing new PCs for your company in a significant way. GHO extension) and then revert the process by restoring the image to a newer active HDD partition in other twin PC.you can do this over and over again as long as all PCs share the same specifications. You can then just install the Os and some basic program and utilities commonly used by everyone in the network and then you can clone the HDD active partition of that PC, grab the image (a file with. This is quite useful if you have a large number of PCs to install the OS and you have few time to get the task done (they need to share the same technical specifications as said before, to avoid hardware conflicts with the resident cloned OS).
*Norton Ghost main interface when running from a Live CD ( )* So NGhost has many advantages and can do many different things regarding data cloning, SysAdmins know that, but its most recognized use is for cloning HDD partitions (or even entire disks) and then replicate(restore) the same image over and over again on other computers sharing the same technical specifications than source Personal Computers ( PC from now on) from the original data was extracted.įig 1. *“If you need to create disk images, for instance to install the same set of data and applications on different computers, then Norton Ghost is the product you are looking for.” (* Symantec-Norton Website) According to Symantec-Norton website (the owner of NGhost): Norton Ghost ( NGhost from now on **:)** ) is a tool that allows data cloning. For those ones of you that are not System Administrators in the IT world maybe the name “Norton Ghost” won't tell you anything but for IT Systems and Networks Administrators, those two words means a lot when dealing with data backups in the broad sense of the word.
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