Norton Ghost 14.0

List Price: $69.99 Discount Price: $42.95

Features:

• Protects your computer with advanced backup and recovery: creates full system and file backups, restore from system failures, and back up based on schedules and events
• Offsite backup copies recovery points to a FTP site for easier offsite backup management
• Backup and recover from Network Attached Storage devices for expandable and flexible backups
• Google Desktop integration makes data recovery even faster with searchable backup indexes
• Backs up and find specified file types such as photos, MP3 files and documents

Customer Reviews:

Norton is great, I just can't get this to work [Posted on 2008-04-25]
The first think you do when reviewing software --- know what you are doing. Don't assume that your Flash drives will magically work with the software. Do I think Norton Ghost is a great product that is most likely useful to people on a network trying to remotely back up and image hard drives? Yes. Do I plan to test it when I get my own wireless network set up? Yes. Do I know how to work it at the moment? No. I'll update this review when I get Norton Ghost fully deployed.

I will say that I love Norton in general even if this product is a bit confusing. The domumentation doesn't provide much help.

Works well! [Posted on 2008-05-09]
This does everything it says it will do. A good choice for those who need these services on their computers.

A huge NO from this average computer user [Posted on 2008-05-09]
So I got Norton Ghost to try even though I'd read it wasn't great. Seemed like a good way to try the product. So much for thinking. I installed the product without any obvious difficulty. Running it, however, was an entirely different matter.

I consider myself to be an average computer user: I know a fair amount of stuff but am not within throwing distance of a guru and know better than to tackle difficult problems by myself. Norton Ghost tested, and beat, my frustration level. The short version is that after a couple of hours, I still was unable to get anything done. I didn't have the kind of hardware the program wanted (for a complete backup) and the software refused to back anything up on CD or DVD. That means it won't work at all for me; or if it would, I don't have the time or patience to figure it out.

So I happily uninstalled it and will look for something else to back up with. My advice: Unless you're really computer proficient, find something more intuitive that requires considerably less user knowledge.

Awesome! [Posted on 2008-05-12]
This is a fantastic upgrade from other packages I've used. This is a fantastic upgrade from other packages I've used. This is a fantastic upgrade from other packages I've used. This is a fantastic upgrade from other packages I've used. This is a fantastic upgrade from other packages I've used.

Bloated and Not Ready for Prime Time [Posted on 2008-05-12]
Error after error. It's bloated with too much junk and doesn't do the main thing - the imaging - near as well as many of its lesser known competitors. Norton's latest 'GHOST' product can't hold a candle to simpler solutions from smaller companies like StorageCraft with their 'ShadowProtect' program, Acronis with their 'True Image' application or Paragon's imaging solution, 'Drive Backup'.

Save your money and get a much better program for imaging your hard drive for a LOT less money from one of the products mentioned above - all of which are far superior.

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