How to Back Up a Hard Drive Using Norton Ghost 2003
When you're replacing your hard drive or you just want to make a copy to keep in a safe place, you can use Norton Ghosts's "Copy Drive" feature to copy your entire operating system and all of your files from one hard drive to another. This feature of Norton Ghost will literally copy everything from your hard drive in its current configuration and store it, either on an external hard drive or on other media such as a DVD or CD-ROM. This allows you to keep a copy of your current hard drive on file in case something happens to your existing drive.
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Instructions
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Open Norton Ghost 2003 by clicking on the desktop icon or using your computer's "Start Menu". Once the software is fully loaded, you will need to open the "Tools" section.
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Plug in the external hard drive to an open USB-2 port. Load the necessary software to bring that drive online and ensure that it is powered up and has sufficient open space to copy your computer's main hard drive.
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Click "Copy My Hard Drive" on the Tools page. The "Hard Drive Copy Wizard" will start. Follow the on-screen prompts to begin the process.
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Choose the right drive to copy using the "Copy My Hard Drive Wizard". Select the destination drive from the drop-down list.
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Select the options that you want from the list. If you're using a blank hard drive to boot your computer after the backup, you will want to select the "Set drive active (for booting OS)" option and also the "Copy MBR" option. This copies your "Master Boot Record", which means that you will be using the destination drive to boot your computer until you replace your current hard drive.
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Complete the process. When you get your new hard drive installed, you can move the backed-up copy from the external back to your main drive, and you're back in business!
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Tips & Warnings
Always back up your data before making any major changes such as replacing a video card or motherboard. This will allow you to restore your data if there is a hardware problem.
You should not use the Copy Drive feature to transfer a hard drive from one computer to another. The drivers that are used to run the hardware on one won't run the hardware on another.
