Backup Wizard Ghost Q & A

Today's operating systems are getting bigger and bigger, and installation time is getting longer. Once a virus or system crashes, reinstalling the system is a painstaking task. In view of this, as a computer user, it is especially important to master the real work of backup and recovery.

The emergence of Ghost has solved these tough problems for us. It can restore the original backup system in just a few minutes, and the computer is in its original form. Ghost has become an indispensable software for PC users since its introduction, and it is also a required course for PC users.

Q: Reinstalling the system is a very troublesome thing. So I thought of Ghost, but I won't use it, please give pointers.

Answer: Use Ghost for system backup, first run the Ghost file, then select “Local→Partition→To Image”, and then follow the prompts to select the operation. When restoring the backup, select “Local→Partition→From Image”, and select the files to be backed up and the partitions to be restored.

Q: Before I used Ghost to restore the backup, the system is normal. But now it can't recover normally. What is going on?

A: Excluding the virus factor, it is very likely that the disk is tidy. Because the image file occupies many clusters on the hard disk, as long as one cluster is damaged, the image file will be wrong. There are a lot of friends who have cloned the image file to start the system recovery normally, but after a while, it finds that there is an error during recovery. The main reason is here.

Q: I want to change a large hard disk recently. The original small hard disk has a G drive backup file of the C drive. The capacity of the C partition of the large hard disk is 3 GB, and the capacity of the C partition of the small hard disk is 1 GB. Can I use this backup file to recover on a large hard drive?

Answer: When using Ghost for hard disk or partition copying, it is no problem to clone a hard disk or partition with the same capacity or large capacity, and the target hard disk or partition will be Like the source disk, the portion larger than the capacity of the source disk becomes free space. For example, the source partition is a total of 600MB, using FAT16 partition mode, a total of 400MB of data, and the target partition is 1GB, using FAT32 partition mode, after the source partition is successfully cloned to the target partition, the target partition also becomes FAT16 partition mode, but the capacity Still 1GB, the data file also occupies 400MB of space. Therefore, when upgrading a computer to a large hard disk, it is easy to copy the contents of the original hard disk without reinstalling the operating system and application software.

Q: I have backed up the system full of software into a .gho file. I want to update some personal documents in this image file frequently. Does Ghost have any local modifications?

A: Local processing of the Ghost file is possible, Ghost has a satellite program Ghost Explorer (pictured), with this program, you can access the files in the image file at any time, just like using the resource manager. , that is, you can restore, delete, or add files to an image file separately. However, it should be noted that the new file function only supports image files after Ghost version 6.0 (including this version), and the delete function only supports image files after Ghost5.0.0C (including this version).

Q: When I use Ghost to restore the C drive under Windows, it will be blue screen after about half of it. After rebooting, I can't enter the Windows system. What is going on, what should I do?

A: Because you are recovering the partition where the Windows system is located, if you recover in the Windows environment, because the recovery process will damage the current system files, it will often happen to the last 20 to 40% of the blue screen of death. Even if the recovery is completed, the restored system is unreliable, and there are often various inexplicable problems in future use. Therefore, when the partition of the Windows system is restored, it should be performed in a pure DOS environment. Now you just need to boot from floppy to DOS and then use Ghost to recover.

Q: My friend bought a new computer. He didn't understand it. The system was always chaotic. I helped him make a Win98.gho image with Ghost. But he said that he was afraid that he couldn't remember the menu in Ghost. Let me help him with a batch process. I remember reading the relevant DOS command to restore the C drive system. I can't remember it now. Please advise!

Answer: Create a new bakup.bat file on the boot floppy disk, add the following:

Ghost-clone, Mode=Load, SRC=e:ghost\\sysbf.gho:1, DST= 1:1-sure-rb. Where e:\\ghost\\sysbf.gho is an example, "sure" means that all prompts or warnings that require confirmation are answered automatically with "Yes", and "rb" is automatically restarted when the Ghost operation ends.

After copying the Ghost program to the boot disk, when you restore the system later, just start it with a floppy disk and run bakup.

Q: How do I put a Ghost file larger than 1G into a CD backup? Is it possible to directly Ghost into several 600M files when backing up with Ghost?

Answer: When entering the Ghost command, add -split=600 to this parameter. 600 refers to the capacity of the Ghost backup file, and the size can be set by itself.

Q: What issues should I pay attention to before the system Ghost backup?

Answer: Before the backup, you should optimize the system, delete the temporary files, clean the registry, defragment, and then install some common software before cloning, so that the system can be saved without the installation of many common software.