Norton Ghost 9.0 - Disk Imaging Solution [Old Version]

List Price: $69.99

Features:

• Advanced backup and recovery for the PC
• Create backup images without restarting Windows
• Incremental backups save time and disk space
• Schedule backups to run automatically
• Includes Norton Ghost 2003 for extended backups

Customer Reviews:

I might as well flushed my $$$ [Posted on 2006-06-21]
Ghost 9 was supposed to be an improvement? When you try to clone your boot drive it will copy everything but it will re-assign your system folder to the drive letter that windows has assigned to it. Making the new drive useless, of course. Their website is NO help and their support people can't even read the manual they were given.

Buy Acronis True Image 9.0.

Great program - IF you're into the Blue Screen of Death! [Posted on 2006-09-25]
Installed this on my laptop and it worked great until I had to use the Recovery Disc to restore a backup from DVD. Ghost recorded the DVD using multiple sessions and the Recovery Disc could only read the 1st session; pretty lowsy glitch. Fortunately I had a spare PC to re-record the DVD using single session - albeit manually. Other problem I had with this is that on my main computer in Windows XP SP2, it would always give a BSOD crash every time I tried to use it. The low-level driver wasn't cooperating - even after I removed everything else I could think of. Bottom line: this is NOT worth the money. The features are great and it has potential - but only when it works. I'm going to try something else.

Has saved my data numerous times [Posted on 2006-12-05]
Norton Ghost 9.0 has saved my neck (my data) on several occasions.
Thanks to a glitchy motherboard I experienced frequent crashes resulting in corrupted harddrive data. However, each time I was able to quickly and entirely recover my system from drive images previously created with Norton Ghost.
Also useful is the ability to mount the drive images.

Ghost 9.0 is really a Ghost [Posted on 2007-03-28]
I have never had a product perform as badly as this one has - it simply is a very slow process, it doesn't deliver an image that is complete or actually makes a boot image as promised. I want to return it.

Good product,. Too bad it's Symantec [Posted on 2007-09-06]
Ghost 9.0 et al was originally Drive Image by Powerquest. Drive Image was a
great product with good support. Symantec bought Powerquest and renamed Drive
Image "Norton Ghost". I only bought Ghost because I know Drive Image is a
good product. Symantec added a few inconsequential features but now provides
zero technical support. Good luck if you have a question not on their FAQ site.
Every year Symantec does another insignificant change, calls it a higher
version and charges twice what Drive Image cost, again with no support.
Try Acronis next.

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