Norton Ghost 14.0 (PC)

Not as good as version 9 - Semperon 1.8 . 2Gb mem. XP sp3.I have used Ghost 9 since it came out and it has saved me many a time. Restoring a C drive in 15 mins.This program ghost 14 was going to take over two hours this morning until I killed it. The lights out restore estimate was 5 yes 5 hours. Can you believe it.Sure it backed up my partitions ok quite quickly but the restore times are unacceptable. I have returned it for a refund, and shall either stick with version 9 or look elsewhere.

Norton Ghost fault and support - Norton Internet Security 2008 & Norton Ghost 14.0 (PC)Norton Ghost does not work on all computers. If you can be bothered there may be a fix but the support and information to fix the problem ( the program can t run while Windows is running ???)has taken me hours to find. I will try the fix tonight.

Not good enough - The file backup functions of Ghost fail as soon as they encounter any error , such as a file which is open, locked or encrypted.That should cover just about all the files you wish to protect from accidental erasure.Ghost should just press on and inform you of any files it was unable to back up. Instead, it sits there and waits for you to acknowledge the error message, then it stops. It does not even resume the backup.As with Microsoft s own offering, backup files are in a proprietary format, therefore you can not easily restore them without using the same backup software.So far as I can tell without having had a system drive failure, the disc imaging system which Ghost uses to restore the entire contents of a disc is quite thorough and it appears to do the business, but the rest of the suite offers nothing that you can not do better with a Maxtor One Touch drive and/or Explorer.

A backup program that works well - I purchased Norton Ghost 14.0 about 10 months ago and although it took some time to get used to it, it works fine on my Vista system. As I am paranoid about loosing any data from my computer, I am using many of Ghost s more advanced functions, and I also restored my PC successfully with Ghost after a system crash 4 months ago. The advantage with Ghost as I see it is that you can make backups on all sorts of medium, external hard disk drive, dvds, etc. For each backup you can choose to keep older backups, giving you several versions of the same file in time. You can also duplicate backups which is useful if you keep a set of backup on a separate HDD outside your home. The scheduler makes backup tasks completely automatic - and you re not forgetting it! On the negative side you will have to read the user manual to familiarize yourself with Ghosts many functions, and the program can some times come up with error messages that are completely impossible to understand - and the link that is supposed to take you to Symantec s internet site to explain the gibberish does not help. However Norton has a free 24/7 pc chat line for technical support ( I have used it myself). Bottom line: Ghost does the job when it comes to backing up your data !

Ghost problem is FAT32 - The problems that people are having with this Software is the way that it tries to make the image of your Hard drive, the default settings for this version of Ghost is it tries to do it all in one big chunk. Which is where it fails if peoples External Hard Drives are Fat32 File System, as it will save only 4Gb Clusters at a time, which was ok for earlier versions of Ghost, but as i found to my cost it isn t ok for this version.I found this out after a lengthy on line chat with Symantec technical Support, i also asked them as to why there isn t information on this in the product packaging, because if it was then people wouldn t be giving it such negative feedback, they said they d pass the feedback on.So basically all you need to do to get round the problems with this software is to convert your external HDD to NTFS File System. by using the command prompt. Don t forget to do this in Windows Vista you need to Right Click Command Prompt icon and Select Run As Administrator or it won t work.Hope this helps.