Symantec Norton Ghost 15.0 - Single User

by Symantec

Product Features

• Norton Ghost 15.0 provides professional grade backup and recovery--quickly restore after system failures and recover lost or damaged files
• Restore from system failures with full recovery, even when your operating system won't start
• Offsite backup copies recovery points to a FTP site for easier offsite backup management
• Backup based on schedules and events--customize backups according to the way you use your computer
• Backup to almost any media, including CD-R/RW and DVD+/-R/RW drives, USB and FireWire devices, network drives, and more

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002SRNS7A
• Item model number: 20097684
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 17, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (117 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #1 in Software > Utilities > Backup
  • #17 in Software > Computer Security

Product Description

Symantec Norton Ghost 15.0 safeguards your system, settings, applications, and files with flexible, comprehensive backup protection.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

83 of 86 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars My Norton ghost 15 report card, December 4, 2009

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B. Wong - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Symantec Norton Ghost 15.0 - Single User (Software)

Backups get A+:

1. Backing up over network, high compression, custom drivers loading is easy to do. You will backup in style

2. Superior and useful utilities.

3. Every imaginable problem from the legendary Ghost 2003 is fixed and improved.

4. No more .gho format anymore. The current format so far has handled some large partition backups for me. Full 30GB partitions to high compression is a breeze.

Restores get C-:

1. Right away after a partition recover, you will get the message "Please insert the Recovery disk". It will say "Error EA730002: Cannot find the driver database directory". How does this error stay in the product? It is one confusing message for a successful recovery. The recovery disk is really just the ghost CD.

2. Then there is the staged recovery mystery. With 2 identical machines of the same hardware, I can only restore to the machine where I initially did the cold backups. I don't understand. This is ruining my confidence in the product. We are talking same motherboards, same versions, everything.

3. What other kind of hardware replacement will prevent my restores? Should I buy another backup product just in case?

50 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unbootable Source Drive, December 20, 2009

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Chris (West Hollywood, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Symantec Norton Ghost 15.0 - Single User (Software)

I tried using "Copy My Hard Drive" to make a bootable Windows 7 disk clone and it rendered the source drive (C:) unbootable! I had to get out the installation DVD to "repair" my Windows 7 installation.

I used to back up my XP drives this way using Ghost 12 and it worked smoothly for years. No backup program should modify anything on the source drive. There are several threads on the Symantec site about this and no one has a clue. Save your money if you plan on using the "Copy My Hard Drive" feature.

46 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ghost 15.0 has a fatal flaw., February 24, 2010

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Michael (Seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Symantec Norton Ghost 15.0 - Single User (Software)

Ghost 15.0 will not communicate with my Netwok Attached Storage hard drive from Iomega. Since the reason I bought it was to back my system up on the NAS drive, it is worthless. Norton Support Technicians have spent a great deal of time on my computer trying to make it work for over a month with no success. Finally they said "Sorry, but no refund". Every other application, includung Norton Security Suite work fine with my NAS drive so I believe that Ghost 15.0 has an inherent flaw in its communications routine which you will not discover until you have opened the package, thereby ruling out any refund. DO NOT BUY THIS SOFTWARE!