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Simply the Best
Norton Ghost is simply THE BEST product on the market for performing backups. The process of setting up scheduled backups is both intuitive and simple. The execution of those backups is flawless, and best of all recovery is a dream. I had used a conventional backup just before my hard drive crashed about a year ago. Recovery was a royal pain. I had all of my data, but that is a small part of the recovery process. Every software program has to be located, reinstalled and then configured. As soon as I recovered from that I bought Norton Ghost 10.0. Shortly thereafter I had another hard drive problem, and recovery was literally one or two clicks of the mouse. When my son came home from college this summer I bought 12.0 for him so he could backup all of his important documents as well as the configuration of his laptop before he headed to Hong Kong for a semester abroad. <
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So easy to use, even a caveman can do it!
I bought this for each PC we have in the family. For 20 years I have supported both friends and family (free of charge, of course) and a few times times I have had to deal with crashed hard drives. Now I tell people that if they aren't using Ghost, don't even think of calling me. If they don't want to spend the money because they think I can work miracles, it isn't worth my time. Some things are miracles, and getting all of your stuff back is one of them. <
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>I have used it successfully with external SATA drives with XP and most recently used it on my wife's new Vista PC and an external USB drive. <
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>I stayed home today to get my car inspected (no problems). After that, I just started building a new Vista PC for myself. After loading Vista and MS Office I will back it up with Ghost. <
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>If you don't use it and your machine crashes, your problems really are of your own making when there is a product like this available. <
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Terrible for copying hard drives
I have used Norton Ghost 2003 to copy Windows XP disks for years without a problem. However, Ghost 2003 hung when I tried to copy SATA disks. I assumed that this was because 2003 is DOS based and I had no DOS driver for the SATA RAID controller. The nice thing about Ghost 2003 is that it runs from an external boot disk and does not interfere with your system when you are not making a copy. This is not so with Norton Ghost 12. It runs all the time in the background. It claims that it can copy your boot disk while Windows is running, though. When I tried to copy one disk to an identical blank 80 GB WD hard drive, the dialog hung at 0%. When I tried to cancel it, it accepted the button press, then hung again at "cancelling." When I killed it in task manager and rebooted, I got an error popup about how I was rebooting during a disk copy. After rebooting, I tried again. There is a page of confusing options for the copy, such as "Make disk active." What the heck does that mean? I checked it. There is a drop down box for assigning a drive letter to the new drive. I wanted it to be the C drive, the same as the orginal. This is not an option. I tried checking a box that looked like it would cause a bit-by-bit copy, even though that is not what the label says. I started the copy again. After 5 minutes, it went to 1% done. I let out a whoop of joy! After a reasonable amount of time, it finished the copy. I shut down the computer and switched the cables to make the new drive the only hard drive. During the boot, I got a question of whether I wanted to boot operating system 1 or 2. That was new. I chose 1 and got a failure. I rebooted and tried 2. It also failed. I moved the cable back to my original drive and found that to my horror, the orginal disk drive had been altered to ask this dual boot question. I spent the whole evening trying different options in an attempt to create a copy that I could boot from. I never succeeded. If you want a program to make incremental backups on a regular basis, this might be the program for you. If you want to copy hard drives, do not use this product.