Editing Ghost (disk utility) (section)

== Features ==
GHOST is marketed as an OS (Operating System) deployment solution. Its capture and deployment environment requires booting to a [[Windows PE]] environment.  This can be accomplished by creating an ISO (to burn to a DVD) or a USB bootable disk, installed to a client as an automation folder<!-- clarification needed --> or delivered by a [[Preboot Execution Environment|PXE]] server.  This provides an environment to perform offline system recovery or image creation. GHOST can [[mount (computing)|mount]] a backup volume to recover individual files.

GHOST can copy the contents of one [[volume (computing)|volume]] to another or copy a volume's contents to a [[Disk image|virtual disk]] in [[VMDK]] or [[VHD (file format)|VHD]] format.

Initially, GHOST supported only the [[File Allocation Table|FAT]] file system, but could only copy (not resize) other file systems by performing a [[Disk sector|sector-by-sector]] transfer. GHOST added support for [[NTFS]] later in 1996, and also provided a program, Ghostwalker, to change the Security ID (SID) that made [[Windows NT]] systems distinguishable from each other. Ghostwalker is capable of modifying the name of the [[Windows NT]] computer from its own interface. GHOST added support for the [[ext2|EXT2]] file system in 1999 and for [[ext3|EXT3]] subsequently. Support for [[ext4|EXT4]] was added in September 2017 (Enterprise only).