About exploring recovery points

You can use Norton Ghost to explore files in a recovery point by assigning it a drive letter that is visible from Windows Explorer.

You can perform the following tasks on the assigned drive:

Run ScanDisk (or CHKDSK)
Perform a virus check
Copy folders or files to an alternate location
View disk information about the drive such as used space and free space
You can also run simple, executable programs that exist within the mounted recovery point.

You can only run programs from within a mapped recovery point that do not rely on registry values, COM interfaces, dynamic link libraries (DLLs), or other similar dependencies.

You can set up a mounted drive as a shared drive. Users on a network can connect to the shared drive and restore files and folders from the recovery point.

You can mount one or more recovery points at a time. The drives remain mounted until you unmount them, or you restart the computer. Mounted drives do not take up extra hard-disk space.

All security on the NTFS volumes remains intact when they are mounted.

You do not need to mount a drive to restore the files or folders from within a recovery point.

Note:

Any data that is written to a mounted recovery point is lost when the recovery point is unmounted. This data includes any data that is being created, edited, or deleted at the time.