Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0

excellent software

Posted 1 year ago - I upgraded my system with norton ghost 14 from version 12 and I am happy with it. It is working very nicely with my vista operating system, e.g. no hang-up issue. This version is very much the same with version 12 except it was built specifically for vista.

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Norton Ghost 14 (Full product)

Posted May 12, 2008 - It has always found my USB drive and I have done everything but a restore. No problems found so far and has always completed the backups. At the very least it gives me peace of mind knowing I have something to fall back on.

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A solid piece of backup software

Posted 1 year ago - Any computer users should back up their data as hard drive failures are not uncommon. Norton Ghost allows users to back up their data easily with an ergonomically designed user interface. I would highly recommend this product to those with valuable data on their computers.

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One of the best system clone/backup soft in the market!

Posted Apr 10, 2008 - I bought this 14.0 version to replace my old Norton Ghost 10.0. Its GUI looks much better than its predecessor. The installation is a breeze. You just need to follow the wizard. The configuration is like a breeze, very easy to do. I don't see significant speed improvement compare with version 10.0 though. I used Ghost for more than 5 years. I knew there are other softwares which can do the same or even more things. However, the reason I pick it up is that it's very stable. Especially when you are doing a system backup, picking up a stable software is the most important IMO. Highly recommend to computer manias who often upgrade computers.

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Ghost 14

Posted Mar 31, 2008 - I use ghost for years to make backup of my system disc to be able quickly recover when needed (and I surely do need it often), but I am disappointed there is no backup function when booted from CD Norton Ghost 14, I might finally give up and move to different product from different company.

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Ghost a'int what it used to be!

Posted 1 year ago - Prior versions of Ghost have created images for system backups. Without changing the name, Norton has changed the program from an image program to a file backup program. There are better file backup programs available, and it is unfair to change the nature of a program without changing the program name.

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Piece of crap

Posted May 17, 2008 - I have a dead laptop. THought I could boot to the CD, execute a backup onto the USB drive I have, then do a full hard disk wipe and reload. NOPE! I got the data off the laptop the old fashioned way by physically removing it. Then I installed Ghost onto a corporate identical laptop, backed it up to the USB drive. Installed it onto the dead laptop. NOPE! So I have to restore the dead laptop by hand. Buyer beware! because you cannot return this once you find that it sucks. OH also I am a Linux guy. After you install this crap, they THEN tell you that it doesn't backup Grub bootloader hard disks, Red Hat Enterprise linux disks, nor any disks with Grub 2. So that's like um 50-75% of the linux installations out there? OH but the advertising materials say it can backup linux disks. No caveats, like the one they tell you AFTER the fact. Oh did I mention? I run CentOS. SO this product has not helped me at all. It is garbage. I'm going to try Clonezilla (an open source one) then fallback to Acronis' True Image that I saw some "from bare metal" recovery messages.

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Review for Norton Ghost 14

Posted May 17, 2008 - It is a very helpful software to pretect your machine. It has great functions such as backup and restore from system failures. However, sometimes it fails to restore. I don't know the reason, but I did meet once.

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Comments for Northon Ghost 14.0

Posted May 17, 2008 - It is a necessary tool to backup and restore your system. It is easy to use. Full system and file backups can be easily created using this software. System can be restored based on the backups. It is a very useful software, but it overlap features with Norton 360, so sometimes, we feel confused which one we should use.

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What happened to Ghost 13 Version

Posted May 5, 2008 - My first impression with Norton's Ghost 14 was that I was actually running Norton's Save & Restore 2.0. Ghost 14's user interface is almost identical. I found Ghost 14 to be reliable for backing up. I didn't get a chance to use the recovery CD much since I didn't want to wipe out the data on my laptop which already works fine. I did however boot up with the recovery disk and other than being slow to boot it seemed to work fine.

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It works if you are willing to put up with bugs and errors

Posted May 3, 2008 - When I first installed Ghost it let me know at once that I had a problem with my RAM. Instead of the 518 MB I had last week, it detected 448 MB. A quick check of my system shows that Ghost was correct although there apparently is a bug that can cause the RAM to show less. I think that probably having the minum RAM necessary is a bad idea. It allowed me to complete the install but warned me that certain resources may not work due to the RAM issue. I then ran the driver validation and discovered that two of my drivers were not available in the Symantic, one was a USB Linksys Wireless-G USB network adapter. The second was a Packet Scheduler Miniport. Neither essential to getting a computer up and running after a disaster so I save the log as text file to deal with later. I'm not going through all of the various parts of the program because there are a lot of features, but I would urge everyone who buys this to check the Read.me file for known bugs and conflicts.

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Ghost 14 looks good

Posted May 13, 2008 - I have been using Ghost since Ghost 9. I like it. I'm not sure if this version is that much better. I haven't tried the FTP capability. My big concern is that I'll fill the target disk. It doesn't seem to run any faster. Still being able to backup your computer is critical. I've had some PC failures and I hate having to reinstall everything. The only problem is that I have come across backups that have been corrupted. When I was researching wether to buy NG14 or Acronis Home 11 that Ghost will log if there is an error creating a backup image volume but it will not pop up an error flag stating that the backup failed. I know that I have come across invalid images. I think that Ghost should be fixed to register that the backup failed. I remember that it says the backup is done. YOU MUST CHECK THE LOG YOURSELF to see if the backup volume failed!

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Norton Ghost 14.0

Posted Apr 13, 2008 - This is a great product from norton. It is very easy to use and there are a lot of features I need to go over, like FTP Backup. It may seems to be expensive at first glance. But after the rebates, it is very affordable.

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Symantec Norton Ghost 14

Posted Apr 6, 2008 - I just added another computer to our house, and wanted to take advantage of Ghost's ability to control backups remotely. For this, you need a version of Ghost 12 or 14 (what happened to version 13??!!) on each computer. Installation was a snap, and I was able to configure the backups so that the data could be put to a home netowrk hard drive. No bloat factor to the software, so that is good. The GUI is fairly intuitive, though I had to use google as to what the various settings meant when doing a C:/ drive copy (I wanted to make sure that the drive that I copied would be bootable). The software is kind of expensive standalne, when you consider that you can sometimes get it bundled with Norton Systemworks Premier.

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Norton Ghost 14

Posted Mar 31, 2008 - Full system backup (disk image), File and folder backup, LightsOut Restore Advanced compression and encryption—Minimizes storage space and helps keep sensitive documents safe. Excellent software for backing up the desktop at home with no hassles. Absolute safe to backup photos, music which I used to loss very often due to disk failure. This new product camp up with excellent features and would definitely recomend this.

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