Norton Ghost 10.0 [OLD VERSION] | ![Norton Ghost 10.0 [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S3VTN05DL._SL500_.jpg)
| From: Symantec
List Price: $69.99
Buy New: $36.93
You Save: $33.06 (47%)
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Rating:  95 reviews
Sales Rank: 2629
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.3
MPN: 10449530
Model: 10449530
UPC: 037648263320
EAN: 0037648263320
ASIN: B000BAT2TE
Release Date: October 6, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new software in onupened box. Ships via first class mail, so arrives in 3-7 days when standard shipping is chosen.
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| 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 |
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Product Description
From photos and music to tax documents, Norton Ghost 10.0 automatically backs up and recovers everything on your computer. Reliable, efficient, and versatile, Norton Ghost optimizes backup space, works with a wide range of media devices, and brings back your entire system in a few short steps.
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 90 more reviews...
 SHOULD BE A LOT BETTER, IF NOT FOR SERIOUS INSTALLATION BUGS!! November 4, 2005
VAL'S VIEWS (Switzerland)
186 out of 191 found this review helpful
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.
 Warning - Buy Ghost 2003 not 10.0 November 14, 2005
E. Caldwell (New Jersey, USA)
107 out of 111 found this review helpful
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
Extreme buggy December 13, 2005
Lothan
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
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.
Norton Ghost 10.0 does NOT work on my Windows XP April 14, 2006
M. Nielson (New York City)
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
I have tried numerous times to copy my 200 gig Maxtor SATA drive to a 250gig Western Digital IDE drive. Its never worked right. On 2nd use it failed completely. On 1st and 3rd attempts all data went fine, but the operating system did not copy. On switching master (200gigMax) with slave (250gigWD) system seemed to be booting fine, then stopped at Windows logo. Therefore, am losing valuable time and cannot setup my new computer. Was planning on using the old drive as backup drive. Unfortunately it must still be the primary drive as Norton Ghost 10.0 DOES NOT WORK. I have had to re-write some programs to write data to the back up drive. Even tried booting from a 3rd drive (C:)Hitachi IDE 40gig), and copying (E:)200gigMax --> (F:)250gigWD. This caused whole thing to fail 10percent through its routine. Symantec has some cryptic note on their web page about licening issues in WindowsXP. Perhaps MicroSoft have figured out way to make Ghost not work. Who knows. Also didnt like sneeky and corrupt way Ghost 10.0 makes you log onto the internet to quote activate unquote Ghost. No where on package does it say this is necessary. WHAT IF YOU DONT HAVE INTERNET CONNECTION? This could be a problem if your computer is crashing and you must back up fast. Bought it for $70 US dollars at New York City Best Buy (23rd Street). QuasiNerds there said they all use it and its excellent. I've never used Norton Ghost 2003 or any other Ghost. As far as I can tell it is good only for backing up data and NOT the OS. Computer being used is a 3.0gh IBM ultra small form factor, w 400 speed RAM.
Product Doesn't work April 28, 2006
Comp Expert (USA)
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
Norton Ghost reeks of being a scam. Drive cloning simply did not work at all. I tried it several times, making sure to click copy mbr and set drive to active (it's a laptop hard drive, cloned with a usb enclosure). Files do transfer fine and dandy as I can see them copied. Yet to no avail would it boot up -- just froze itself. I repeated process several times in case there was some error on my part. Nope, no success. Spent hours upon hours going no where. Norton's website is an awful mess, apparently designed by high school students, so no help there. Then I took a suggestion to try Acronis Trueimage, as it apparently was a product that could do the same job -- just used demo version downloaded from their website -- and it worked without a hitch the first time -- my cloned drive actually booted just fine, as it was supposed to. Therefore there was nothing wrong with the hardware end. Ghost simply is a scam that does not work. An investigation should be engaged for the consumer scam that is going on with this product.
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