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Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0 (Full Product)

Norton Ghost 14.0 (Full Product)
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Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0 (Full Product)

  • Reviewed by: lytlejva

    04-06-08

    Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks

    Strengths: Good backup as advertised

    Weaknesses:Tech support not up-to-speed for this product. I'm trying to find out the pricing for the Ghost 14 Agent that is referred to for backing up another computer. User manual covers use and licensing of the Ghost Agent and has a link to the Symantec Store for purchase information. Tech support keeps asking if I want to buy another copy of Ghost.

    Overall Evaluation: Except for the Agent issue, performs as advertised.

  • Reviewed by: umichkid

    10-10-08

    Duration of ownership: 50 Days

    Strengths: user-friendly, reputation

    Weaknesses:none so far

    Overall Evaluation: 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.

  • Reviewed by: woodsley

    09-01-08

    Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks

    Strengths: excellent system recovery disk

    Weaknesses:none

    Overall Evaluation: 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.

  • Reviewed by: acbarclay

    06-22-08

    Duration of ownership: 7 Days

    Strengths: It is probably a good file backup program.

    Weaknesses:It does not create an image for a system backup.

    Overall Evaluation: 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.

  • Reviewed by:

    05-17-08

    Duration of ownership: 1

    Strengths: None. OH the program was actually on the CD.

    Weaknesses:False and misleading advertising.

    Overall Evaluation: 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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