Norton Ghost 12.0 [OLD VERSION]

by Symantec

Product 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

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000NKPFD4
• Item model number: 11866268
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 9, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,375 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #62 in Software > Utilities > Backup
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Symantec Ghost 12.0. Norton Ghost 12.0 provides advanced backup and recovery for your computer. Includes the backup protection you expect with powerful new features including on-disk system recovery environment and integrated desktop search indexing. Incremental backups and enhanced compression help reduce the amount of required storage while available encryption keeps it safe. Norton Ghost 12.0 works with most storage devices including external hard drives networked drives and recordable and re-writeable CDs and DVDs. And whether you choose full backups or file and folder archive Norton Ghost 12.0 delivers faster backups with less impact on system resources.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy and Reliable Backup / Recovery Tool, May 27, 2007

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This review is from: Norton Ghost 12.0 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

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.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ghost v12 - buyer beware, September 3, 2007

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John T. Crea Ent "johncrea" (Panama City, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Norton Ghost 12.0 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

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

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Does not clone, June 5, 2007

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This review is from: Norton Ghost 12.0 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

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.