Norton Ghost 14.0 [Old Version]

Norton Ghost 14.0 was very easy to install and perform a image backup with. I picked Norton Ghost because of years of flawless performance from the product. Many backup programs make back up files, but recovery is some times a mistery. Not with Norton Ghost.

This product failed miserably when installed on my PC running XP Pro. Running LiveUpdate failed and caused the program to stop running (I had to repair the installation using the install disk). Once running, an attempt to back up my hard drive to a DVD-ROM set also failed. Needless to say Im returning the product and will look for another backup program.

good luck to you if you have windows 10. And worse yet, if your drive is already encrypted with Symantecs Endpoint Encryption (SEE). And even more luck to you if your drive is NTFS. I got Ghost specifically because it was said in a couple symantec pages that Ghost 7.5+ allows you to make a system disk of a SEE drive. And Ghost 11.5+ also lets you unencrypted the backup. Well, 3 hrs after installing, I still cant get the !#@$#^& thing to do a stinkin system backup to a USB drive. Why? Oh, now the documentation I get with this thing, states that it is capable of making a system backup to another drive, but not a Networked or Removable drive. So, I guess they didnt want to say in the Symantec web site that system backups are only for pc with multiple internal drives?!? Dang, they could have said that in their stinkin web pages *before* I bought this stupid thing...

For the most part it does what its suppose to do. Excellent for maintianing a Back-Up. Particular problem encountered was; this Ghost works within Windows, with something running in the background that we could not identify and shut off, it would not make a good copy we could use when copying a worn out hard drive to a new one. It would copy but not run (tried three times). Solution; Had to find a copy of older Ghost 12 which works outside of windows, it made the copy, worked fine copying the primary disc to new hard drive, worked first time. We then reloaded Ghost 14 to use as a backup program for new Backup hard drive, works well. This may be particular problem for what we had running, but Ghost 12 had no problem.

excellent

Ive used past versions of Norton Ghost to do backups and recoveries when they are needed and I have found the software to do what it says it will but its not the most intuitive product in the world. Having said that, I think that the older versions were better overall. The interface was very simple but it seemed to lighten the bells and whistles stuff and stuck to the basics. I think that with the new interface the product looks nicer but when you try to do too much and release a product too early it can cause problems. After reading other reviews regarding bugs and problems using the software I will have to say be careful. The backups that I did worked fine and I didnt have problems but with multiple warnings out there on the web I cant give this more than a 3 star rating. Ghost will do backups but theres too many warning signs to make this a recommended purchase. ***

Let me preface this review by saying (1) I am wary of Norton products because I have found them to be a lot of bloatware (such as their anti virus and utilities programs which over the years became increasingly poor in quality) and (2) I was wary of trying Ghost because of the other reviews I read. So why did I try it? Because it came free with Amazon Vine and I needed a backup program. The program itself was easy enough to install on Windows XP. It was also simple to schedule a backup; you can choose to back up your entire drive, selected portions that are already listed (such as MyDocuments) or you can browse and select what you want to back up. The backup function seems to work fine. I have not tried to restore any backed up files yet, however. I am assuming they have been properly backed up on an external drive. As for the other features of this software, I did not use any of them because of the other reviews and my fear of something going awry. When I used to use Norton Utilities and Anti-Virus, they caused my computer to slow to a crawl because of all the unnecessary things they do automatically, trying to be overly helpful and fancy. That is what this version of Ghost seems to be, also - too fancy. All I wanted was a basic backup program that runs on a user-defined schedule and backs up user-defined files. This software fits the bit for those needs. It is not worth the steep price, however.

No longer using norton.

I used this to ghost my os and it worked very well. It was a bit confusing in the beginning but worked out in the end.

I upgraded from Ghost 9.0 to the latest version Ghost 14.0 just prior to receiving my new Windows 7 computer. I was totally p****d when I learned that I could not access my backups on my external hard drive with Ghost 14.0. After contacting Symantec I learned that they are working on Ghost 15.0 but could not supply me with a date (this occurred approx.Nov.12) I will NOT buy 15.0, because Win 7 has a decent integrated backup. :-)