Norton Ghost 14.0 [Old Version]

I bought this software thinking it would have more capabilities and functions. Had I not gotten a good deal on it, it would not have been worth purchasing.

After wasting two days trying to copy my old hard drive to a new hard drive, I gave up using this tool for that purpose. I think the problem was the new HD was formatted incorrectly to be a bootable drive. The software has a Copy Master Boot Record option, but it never made the drive bootable. This software never tells you the result will not be bootable. Even if it did there is no option to repartition the HD with either Ghost or plain XP options. If you want to migrate your primary HD to a new larger HD, use Acronis Migrate Easy since it is half the price and has the ability to adjust your partitions to be bootable. I think Norton wants this to be purely backup software. As a backup software its buggy. If you have SQL Server installed, you probably run into the COM Surrogate error. I hate the way the software is presumptuous. I didnt need a LiveUpdate in the control panel. Ghost gives you a startup tray app that scans HDs on startup. This slows up the bootup and I dont see how you can turn it off. Since backup software comes with Windows not sure this is worth $70.

The product was ok, but not all it was cracked up to be. I hope new versions are better. Continued licensure is required to reclaim your backups..so be warned.

Ghost has followed the footsteps of the other Norton products and declined in quality over the years. The feature set is not that great and the gui is awful. It does the job its supposed to but many of the extra features arent that useful.

I bought Norton Ghost 14 to use to migrate my Thinkpad T60 to a larger hard drive. I spent all day trying, only to learn that this product wont do that! I ended up just downloading a free product, HDClone, and it worked perfectly. If you want to do routine backups, you can buy Ghost. If you need to clone a hard-drive with hidden partitions, look elsewhere.

Ive used Ghost for a few years. It usually works fine. I use off the shelf PCs and do not have any trouble restoring (luckily only once in all this time). Recently, I added Network Attached Storage (NAS) to my home network. Ghost 10 and 12 worked for a while then had problems doing incremental backups. This newest rev seems to have solved whatever the issues were as I have been doing incremental backups fine for a few months now.

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I have been very impressed by this product, thus far. Typically, computer products only claim to do certain tasks, but this product has succeeded in all of my tests, so far. I used the program without looking at the instructions, to test for Intuitive and User Friendly aspects. I found the program to be completely Intuitive and User Friendly, and I did not have to look at the instructions to accomplish many tasks. I also successfully used the CD to perform Utility tasks, and to save Updated virus definition files! This program makes it much easier to maintain a Windohs machine. I am very happy with this product, though it is a bit tricky if using an external hard drive to restore files. I suggest using an Internal Hard Drive for backups, but techies can use an external without much trouble. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Initially, I liked this program, and it seemed to be a nice tool kit cd (

All the review said this was a easy to use product. After installation it failed to back my C: drive as promised in the literature. I had to GOOGLE for a solution. And finally after doing 7 CHECKDSK command it finally work.

As an IT professional I can make Norton Ghost perform the tasks I want it to do. I was able to backup my internal 100GB hard drive to my external 500GB drive without too much difficulty. I have never found a product that does a good job with backing up everything, including the OS, and restoring it good as new with little effort, so I wasnt too surprised to see that this product fails in that area too. Personally, I think people are better off using WinZip to backup critical data to an external medium than using something as hard to use as Norton Ghost. Just expect that when your HD dies, youll need to get a new one, format it, load the OS and your apps from source media, then restore your files from the WinZip backup files. This approach is FAR more reliable than supposed one-step solutions like this one.