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Summary: Very Disappointing - NOT recommended
Review: I expected a well-known and popular company like Symantec to give me an easy to use, well designed product. My expectation was unfounded. Ghost 2002 is neither easy or well-designed. Expect extensive documentation that still manages to miss important points. Also expect multiple errors throughout the image creation process. I still haven't been able to create a complete image without a "12020" error. The Symantec web site list at least 3 causes for this error and none of the suggested solutions fixes the problem.This is a very disappointing product (especially for the cost!) The pattern of the reviews here should indicate many people feel the same. I would suggest trying Drive Image instead. It couldn't be much worse.
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Summary: Warning: Will not support USB CD-RW writer
Review: I have a laptop computer with a cd burner attached by a USB cable. I bought Norton Ghost to make an image of my drive on cd. Nowhere on the box, or in the advertisements does it say it will not do this with a USB cd burner. After I opened the box and started reading the manual, on page sixteen there is a warning that Ghost does not support USB cd burners. Very disappointing.
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Summary: THE BEST OF ALL IMAGE PROGRAMS
Review: I Have been using acronis true image and drive image 2002 by powerquest and I Can Tell norton ghost 2002 is the winner.
I own the cd only and the cd contains interactive instructions of how to use the program,very easy to use and to understand.
It Is cheaper than the other two. If you want easy way to make an image of your hard drive ,GO for This Beautiful Program.!!
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Summary: Ghost 2001 is great, but don't touch Ghost 2002!
Review: I have been very happy with Ghost 2001, which I purchased a year ago. The only problem Ghost 2001 had was that it does not support Windows XP. Therefore, I purchased the Ghost 2002 upgrade. My advice to you is not to touch Ghost 2002. A real clever marketing person in Symantec had devised a new trick, never before used in the industry. Each time you restore a Ghost image, they make you type a 16-char license number into the restore screen. The way it works is: first they display the license code in a flush screen, then you navigate to the restore screen, and have to type the number. BTW, no cut+paste between the flush screen and the restore screen, that would defeat the purpose of the trick. Reading Symantec's FAQ, the goal of this becomes clear: they want you to buy a pricier version of Ghost, a version that has more features (which I personally do not need), and does not make you type meaningless numbers. Oh, BTW, that costly version does not even support XP according to their site. Symantec are not using the typing of the license code as a legitimate anti-piracy measure (the way license codes are used by any other software manufacturer), but rather as a way to slow down the user. The way everybody else in the industry convinces customers to invest in a higher-priced software is by offering better *features* in the higher-priced product. Not by purposely making the lower-priced product annoying to use. By buying Ghost 2002 you are not only buying grief, you are also providing legitimacy to a totally illegitimate marketing ploy. Don't buy it.
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Summary: It's certainly limited
Review: 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.
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Summary: Hurt my system, and now I'm stuck with it
Review: I purchased Norton Ghost to see how it compared to Drive Image. It damaged my system and required me to do a low-level format of my hard drive. I had to restore my system using Drive Image. Now Symantec won't refund my money. Seems like I'm stuck with it. Beware!!!
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Summary: Intentionally Crippled Software
Review: 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.
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Summary: A smooth, easy ride...
Review: 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.
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Summary: But Not for NTFS
Review: I recently purchased Norton Ghost 2003which, I was told, was suitable for my Windows-2000 Professional/NTFS environment. The program could not produce a boot diskette that could "see" my second HDD containing three NTFS-formatted partitions. Multiple pleas for help to the Symantec Support website produced multiple suggestions - none of which worked. I needed to abandon my old Quantum HDD (my C: Drive) and clone it to one partition of the new 80 GB Seagate. In the end, I did achieve this, but no-thanks to Norton Ghost 2003. My success came my using the software "DiscWizard 2002" available (free) from the Seagate website. DiscWizard ran from my C: Drive under Windows 2000 Pro and successfully conditioned my Seagate HDD ready for swapping with the old Quantum HDD. To my delight, my computer booted up to Windows 2000 Pro without a murmur.
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Summary: But Not for NTFS
Review: I recently purchased Norton Ghost 2003which, I was told, was suitable for my Windows-2000 Professional/NTFS environment. The program could not produce a boot diskette that could "see" my second HDD containing three NTFS-formatted partitions. Multiple pleas for help to the Symantec Support website produced multiple suggestions - none of which worked. I needed to abandon my old Quantum HDD (my C: Drive) and clone it to one partition of the new 80 GB Seagate. In the end, I did achieve this, but no-thanks to Norton Ghost 2003. My success came my using the software "DiscWizard 2002" available (free) from the Seagate website. DiscWizard ran from my C: Drive under Windows 2000 Pro and successfully conditioned my Seagate HDD ready for swapping with the old Quantum HDD. To my delight, my computer booted up to Windows 2000 Pro without a murmur.
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