Norton Ghost 10.0 [OLD VERSION]

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Product Features

• Automatically back up and recover everything on your computer
• Recovers system and data even when you can't restart your operating system
• Automatically detects storage devices, analyzes your system, and offers backup advice
• Back up to a variety of media including CD and DVD drives, USB and FireWire devices, and Iomega Zip and Jaz drives
• One-step setup wizard makes installation and configuration quick and easy

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 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: B000BAT2TE
• Item model number: 10449530
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 13, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (96 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,888 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Backing up your system might seem like a hassle, but when you lose your important data right before a big meeting, event, or project due date, you'll wish you had. Norton Ghost 10.0 makes backing up so simple that you will no longer have to worry about it--it automatically backs up any and all data, including photos, music, tax documents, and more, making it ideal for home users, too.

Norton Ghost 10.0 now automatically detects storage devices, analyzes your system, and offers the "best practice" backup advice during installation. The new one-step setup wizard makes installation and configuration even easier. It also automatically creates an initial backup schedule based on your computer's configuration. Plus, it will backup to virtually any media of your choice, including CDR/RW and DVD+-R/RW, USB and FireWire devices, Iomega Zip and Jaz drives, and more.

A handful of new tools make customizing and monitoring backups even easier. Backups are triggered by key events like new program installations or user logings. The one button "Backup Now" feature lets you create new backups on demand. Monitoring backups is easier with a task-based interface, and all scheduled backups are displayed in one convenient view along with the degree of backup protection for each drive. New for those who have Maxtor external drives is a Maxtor OneTouch button that automatically begins backing up your drives.

As always you can make incremental backups to help maximize space and save time, and you can make backups on the fly without restarting your computer. If something does go awry, it can recover system data even when you can't restart your operating system.

Product Description

Save the stuff you care about with the new Norton Ghost. From digital photos and music files to tax documents and personal journals, Norton Ghost 10.0 stores away the things you hold dear. In fact, it automatically backs up everything on your computer—from music and photos to settings and applications. That means you can go about your business worry-free, knowing your most prized digital items are protected from loss. With its new task-driven interface, Norton Ghost backups are quick and orderly. So is initial setup. When you load Norton Ghost, it scans your system for the best place to back up your data, automatically establishes a backup schedule, and begins creating backups right away. You can also design your own backup schedule, and on-demand backups are always available at the click of a button. Versatile and efficient, Norton Ghost backs up to a wide range of media devices. It also manages your backup space, constantly monitoring for adequate room and using compression and incremental backups to maximize disk space. And should disaster strike, complete recovery is quick and easy. Even if you can’t start your operating system, Norton Ghost can bring back your entire system—and all your valuable stuff—in a few short steps.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

188 of 193 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars SHOULD BE A LOT BETTER, IF NOT FOR SERIOUS INSTALLATION BUGS!!, November 3, 2005

By	VAL ODUENYI (Switzerland) - See all my reviews

Surely, "Norton Ghost 10.0 Computer Back-up and Recovery" has the capacity to provide your computer with a straightforward back-up and recovery utilities. It even assumes an intuitive Windows-like interface, which makes it easier for new users to adapt to its functional tools. And, if you ever have the misfortune of encountering general system or storage failure, you will thank God for having it in place.
However, as long as nothing calamitious happens to your computer's hard-disk, this software will remain a voracious resources-parasite in your PC. It does this by drastically slowing down everything that your PC does: including printing from a simple text file. Another problem is installation. I have been called upon a number of times to help a friend or a relative, whose computers either frozed or suffered rainbow-screen syndrome, in the course of installing this scary "Ghost-of-a-software". And the hardest part of the problem is that it leaves you with no clue of what had gone wrong. Both the software's users manual and Symantec's website did not mention the possibility of this problem occurring: thus, leaving you out in the cold.
Complete systems shut-down, or manual switch-off (where normal shut-down refused to comply), followed by a fresh reinstallation was able to resolve this problem in about 60% of the affected systems (which I handled). The remaining 40% waited endlessly and in vain for help from Symantec's support department. But nothing ever happened, because the guys at Symantec were as confused as we were regarding the problem. They gave one suggestion after another, all of which failed to provide any solution to the problem. We ended-up uninstalling the software from the affected computers. The owners are now left with newly purchased items, which they may never use.
But despite all these, if you are lucky enough to experience a hitch-free installation, this software will certainly serve you well. But be sure to increase your system's RAM (if it is anything less than 512MB). If you fail to do this, your PC will be crawling like a tortoise even when handling a very simple task. It does not matter whether your have the newest processor in town!
Another point to note is that this software runs only on Windows 2000 Professional with Service-Pack 4, and on Windows XP (both Home and Professional editions). Be sure that you already have Service-Pack 4 installed, if you plan to use it with Windows 2000 Pro. The software does not run on Windows 9X, NT, or ME.
As long as your computer has 512MB or more memory, and you are able to overcome a possible installation problem, be sure that this software will do for you everything which Symantec claimed that it does.
Finally, let it be known that this "Norton Ghost 10.0 Computer Back-up and Recovery" software would have been an undeniable first-class utility, had Symantec fixed the bugs, which are currently making it hard to install and use.

108 of 112 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Warning - Buy Ghost 2003 not 10.0, November 13, 2005

By	E. Caldwell "E.Caldwell" (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Running XP Home and installation and removal was a living hell.I upgraded from Ghost 2003 which must be removed prior to installing 10.0, but removal was incomplete and 10.0 took three trys to install. It slows down your entire system and had numerous lockups. Finally was able to remove 10.0 and reinstall 2003. No more freezes, lockups or errors. Stay away from this product. ( With the Amazon rebates I hope to only be out only $10.00 and 5 hrs of install/reinstall. Not recommended -Bad Product. E. Caldwell

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Extreme buggy, December 13, 2005

By	Gregory Law (Warner Robins GA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I installed Norton Ghost 10.0 on a new Windows XP SP2 computer and it ran successfully for three days and then suddenly locked the computer. Thinking this was a fluke, I powered off the computer and rebooted into Windows XP. No matter what settings I used (including disabling automatic backups completely), Norton Ghost 10.0 consistently locks the computer within three hours of booting. I even reinstalled Windows XP SP2 from scratch followed by installing only Norton Ghost 10.0 in an attempt to narrow the problem (e.g. removing Norton Internet Security from the equation). Within a couple of days, Norton Ghost began hanging the computer again.

The automated snapshot facility is apparently intended to replace or supplement Windows Restore Points, but it is fatally flawed as well. Windows Restore successfully creates restore points upon installation of new software whereas Norton Ghost 10.0 seems to create a restore point anytime a mouse comes near an installation package or application with setup (and perhaps other keywords) in its name. Of course of the weekend that it was working (before it began locking the computer), it had created over 150 restore points.

The worst aspect of Norton Ghost 10.0 in my opinion is that the interface is extremely confusing whereas Ghost 2003 was at least somewhat intuitive. I have used Norton Ghost 2003 successfully for over a year, including restoring files and folders after reinstalling the operating system and (for the most part) it just works.

In the end, I tossed Norton Ghost 10.0 into the trash and went back to Norton Ghost 2003.