Product Description

Your PC drive now contains more than text files. There are contacts, financial documents, pictures, and (valuable) music and video downloads. They aren't as safe as you think. A glitch may accidentally occur to corrupt and even delete your files. That's where Norton Ghost comes in. It helps you backup your precious data automatically. Prompt it or let it work in the background like a ghost - quietly protecting your files, transferring them to backup drives, and even optimizing the performance of your PC's drives. There may be a ghost of a chance that you'll ever need Ghost 12 but it's far better to have Ghost fighting on your side. After all, your PC contains key aspects of your life. Protect them with Ghost 12. Automatically detects storage devices, analyzes your system, and offers best practice backup advice during installation Automatically monitors and optimizes backup disk space Triggers backups on key events, like new program installations or user logins Creates new backups on demand with One Button Back Up Now Encrypts backups to help keep them secure Task-based interface simplifies management and monitoring Displays all scheduled backups - plus the degree of backup protection for each drive on your computer - in one convenient view One-step setup wizard makes installation and configuration quick and easy Begins backing up to Maxtor external drives by simply pressing the Maxtor OneTouch button Microsoft Windows XP and Vista friendly

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3023 in Software
• Brand: Symantec
• Model: 11866268
• Released on: 2007-03-08
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .36 pounds

Features

• Backs up everything on your computer - digital music, photos, financial documents, applications, settings, operating system, etc. - in one easy step
• Recovers your system and data even when you can't restart your operating system
• Makes incremental backups to maximize space and save time
• Makes backups on the fly, without restarting your system
• Automatically creates an initial backup schedule based on your computer's configuration

Customer Reviews

Easy and Reliable Backup / Recovery Tool
I am using Norton Ghost on my Windows Vista machine with an external Seagate Hard Drive. Ghost is very easy to setup, and it walks you through doing a backup, so even the newbie pc users can backup their files easily. My initial concern was being able to search through the backups for a specific file but they have made that very simple and really fast in my opinion. As a seasoned IT guy, I didn't know if Ghost was really for me since I used to think of it more in terms with "imaging". However, Ghost 12 is the best solution I found for day to day backup of my home and business computers. You can setup automated backups so that every week, day, Monday, etc... the system will automatically do a backup without user intervention. I have tested the restore methods, and not only are they reliable, but they are fast too. In case you try to restore a file that already exists, you will be prompted by Windows to confirm the restore, which should help prevent overwriting a good file by accident. I hope every computer user will seriously consider getting an external storage device and using a backup utility like Ghost to safeguard their entire system or at least their important files.

Ghost v12 - buyer beware
Being a long time Ghost user, I bought a copy of Ghost v12. Install was easy, but during the first use it caused the computer (XP with all patches/service packs) to freeze. AND it results in a machine that would NOT boot to the desktop, apparently messing up the registry to the point that after entering the password it brought me to a plain blue screen with NO icons or anyway to do anything. A registry restore fixed this, and being a glutton for punishment, I rebooted several times to be sure everything was working well, then re-installed Ghost, only to have the same problem occur.

Bottom line, if it works for you, great. But be aware that it can cripple your computer. I returned it to Symantec for a refund and got a trial of Acronis TrueImage v10, and Acronis installed and worked without any issues

John

Does not clone
I used to like Ghost because it clones well when upgrading hard drives. I bought the version 12 and expected it to work well, but it failed to clone my hard drives in 3 computers. It always stoped at 99% and failed. Do not purchase this software unless you test this function. I had to use Acronis' True image to get the job done without any problem.