How to Restore a Hard Drive

Video Transcript

" Hey! I’m James Adams I’m here with expertvillage.com and now I’m going to talk about Norton Ghost. In the clip before I showed how to backup your hard drive now I’m going to show you how to restore it. One very important thing is for Norton Ghost it doesn’t like USB mouse with a flat connector, so you’re going to need a mouse that has the round little thing or an adaptor or a USB mouse. Now we’re going to proceed with the restoring process. So now on my computer I push F12. This is another computer; this is not the laptop from earlier. I push F12 and I got the boot menu. For Norton Ghost you push CD ROM, and then it says press any key from boot from CD and now we wait. Okay so now we pushed F12 button, boot from the CD, we waited for a long time, and now we get this message. All you have to do is click accept and now we wait some more. Right before this screen a popup will appear something about networking services. Just select yes or no it doesn’t matter. We saved it to our hard drive. To recover you go to advance recovery tasks, click on it. Remember that between clicks and stuff since it’s going from a CD it’s going to take a little while. Then you go to system restore. The next screen will be a wizard and you want to select restore drives, click next. Then what do you need to restore? Remember we pretended to make a backup of the C drive where windows is onto the D. In this case, we want to restore just the C drive. We want to restore windows; we click next. Here we clicked the browse button, and now we need to find where we put that backup we made earlier. In my case, we go to the D drive and I have a nifty little folder called windows backup. Right there it is, just double click that, click next, and then you need to select the destination. This one, disk, on this column, it indicates which hard drive it is the first, which is the IDE1 master or the second IDE2 slave. It says there in that popup IDE primary slave, IDE primary master. We want to select the disk one so it’s the master on IDE1. After this, you have some options. Just to be safe, you can click on that one says drive active for booting OS, restore original disk signature we store NBR, and then you click next. Since my computer is working fine, I don’t want to restore it so I’m going to hit cancel, but in your case all you need to do is click OK."