Norton Ghost 2002 [OLD VERSION]

by Symantec

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 7.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005N6K9
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 27, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,850 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Norton Ghost 2002 provides high-performance utilities for fast and safe system upgrading, backup, and recovery. Designed for technically proficient home and small business users, Norton Ghost is based on the corporate edition of Symantec Ghost.

With this new version of Norton Ghost, Windows XP Beta 2515 users can take advantage of the program's powerful cloning tools, and all users will enjoy much faster performance. Norton Ghost makes it easy to back up your valuable data. You can write disk images directly to many popular CD-R/RW drives and other removable media. Clone an entire hard drive, or just the partitions you choose. Norton Ghost can even automatically determine the partition sizes for the destination drive.

With Norton Ghost you can clone directly between two PCs using a network, USB, or parallel connection. For cloning flexibility, Norton Ghost supports the Microsoft FAT and NTFS and Linux EXT2 file systems. You also get Ghost Explorer, which allows you to restore all or selected parts of an image to a hard drive, and G Disk, a robust partitioning and disk-wiping tool. Whether you want to back up your existing hard drive or copy its contents to a new drive, trust Norton Ghost 2002 for fast, safe PC cloning.

Product Description

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It's certainly limited, December 31, 2001

By 

Mark J. Minasi (Virginia Beach, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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I have to sadly agree with many of the negative reviews. But I'm including thie review not to be negative, but to relate what I've found that you CAN and CAN'T do with this product. (1) As others have said, this isn't going to work with a network. And I guess if I wanted to directly burn CDs then I'd need a DOS device driver (good luck finding that for a Sony DVD+RW), so I'm glad I'm not doing that either. Fortunately for me, I'm working with a test machine that I deliberately configured with an extra hard drive just so I had a local place to Ghost back and forth with. (2) While Ghost does a fine and fast job shuttling entire-drive clones from drive to drive, it has this incredibly annoying habit: every time that I want to move an image drive/drive then it demands that I punch in the 15 character serial number. Sheesh! (3) This is a nit, but I found it annoying that on the one hand this is a for-the-home-user, reduced-functionality version of Ghost... but I still had to type in an organization name, or it wouldn't install. (4) I only need this to reset a single test machine, but I'd complain if I had other systems and was forced to buy a separate copy of this infrequently-used utility for each one. Were the license a bit more reasonable -- "go ahead and use it for all of the computers in your house" -- then I think Symantec would win the hearts -- and business -- of other small users.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A smooth, easy ride..., June 7, 2002

By 

Brian "beflogic" (Burbank, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Norton Ghost 2002 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I read the other reviews on this product Norton Ghost 2002 and was amazed at the mixed reviews. I go way back with the Norton products and like the other two products I'm using: Norton Firewall and Anti-virus. I've always found the Norton products to be well written and compatible with the PC. When I installed Windows XP on my system and chose the NFTS file system, my usual backup system no longer worked. I used to use the Maxtor "MaxBlast" utility to backup my drive to another drive which always worked great. Not anymore, I could not access the Windows XP drive with the NFTS file system. I needed a backup system, so despite some nightmarish reviews, I bit the bullet and bought figuring what happened to the others would not happen to me. My intuition was right, the Ghost cloned my drive onto a second drive in less than 15 minutes and all went smoothly. I then booted up with this cloned drive to make sure it worked, which it did, then I tested the applications which worked just like the original drive - Now I had a perfectly cloned drive. Also, mentioned by someone else, I was able to make an MS-Dos bootable disk entirely through the installation without going elsewhere to get the MS-DOS (and instead of using the PC-DOS default that may or may not work). When you go through the installation, at the end it asks if you want a quick format of your floppy which is pre-checked, but the other option is to make an MS-DOS bootable disk. Uncheck the quick format and check the MS-DOS bootable disk option and it will make one for you. Then there is an option to start the process over and you will have your bootable MS-DOS disk on which it can load the new configuration files for your new Ghost 2002 boot disk.
If you have Windows XP and want to back up your system to another hard drive, BUY THIS.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Think I'm gonna return this product, January 6, 2002

By A Customer

I wish I had read the reviews here before buying Ghost 2002 as an upgrade to my old Ghost 5.

I have a WinXP machine with a 75GB hard disk. It is partitioned into four logical drives. Usually, all I'll want to do is make a backup of selected partitions like the C: operating system partition or the E: data partition. I planned on dumping the image to the hard disk of another computer on my home network.

I was thwarted. The problems were:

1. Since Ghost 2002 is DOS-based, it sees my 75GB NTFS-formatted drive as one huge single 75GB volume. It doesn't see the individual NTFS partitions.

2. It can't write images to NTFS partitions. So even though it can read my NTFS drive (albeit as one gigantic volume), it can't save to an NTFS drive. You have to make sure that your destination drive is formatted with FAT or FAT32.

3. Ghost Explorer (the part of Ghost that lets you explore through a Ghost image in an Explorer-like manner, as if it were a regular hard disk) is a joke with NTFS. You can view an image of an NTFS volume -- BUT you can't add, delete, or do *anything* with the image. Ghost Explorer can only view it. That's it.

They obviously want you to buy the corporate edition. Yeah, right. Not only is that a lot more expensive, it is also overkill. Home users don't need advanced functions like multicast servers and would probably get confused and frustrated with all of the extra features in the corporate edition. But they DO need full NTFS support. Wake up, Symantec. With Windows XP, NTFS is the new gold standard -- for both home and business.

Better get off your rears, sack your stupid marketing people (is there any other breed?), and make a USEABLE product next time.