How to Make a Ghost Drive
Norton Ghost creates a copy of your current hard drive as a means to quickly restore your computer in case of a failure. You can use Ghost to copy your current hard drive to a new one and store it as a backup. When your current hard drive crashes, replace it with the Norton Ghost copy and you're back up in minutes. Once Norton Ghost is installed, it's ready to take a copy off the current drive and create a backup Ghost drive.
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Instructions
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Open the Norton Ghost application and click the "Clone" button when the software starts. This starts the clone process. Click the "Next" button on the summary screen to continue.
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Highlight the drive you wish to clone in the left window labeled "Source." This is a list of the current hard drives installed on your computer. You can click one or several hard drives as long as the destination drive has enough space.
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Highlight the destination drive. The destination drive must have enough space to hold the image; otherwise Norton Ghost will return an error. Click the "Next" button when you have selected the drive.
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Click "Next" on the following screen. This screen is used for advanced features, but they aren't required for a simple copy of a drive. Click the "Next" button again at the confirmation screen, which summarizes the options you selected for the image.
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Click "Run Now" at the final screen. Norton Ghost will then write the copy to your hard drive. Depending on the size of the drive, this can take several minutes.
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