Norton Ghost

[echelonphoto]

I just had a catastrophic system failure...due in part to Norton Ghost program. Last year I got screwed by the "go back" program. I run all my programs on a discreet disk and data files on another, so I can't lose vital info. However, I made a ghost backup to ease my restructuring of my main drive, should there be a problem. My computer was crashing badly, so I decided to restore a previous back up. Everything looked good at first , the Norton was restoring my drive. However a 20% in, the Norton just froze up and stopped. Of course, when I restarted my computer, it was corrupted and unuasable. I tried even to run a new windows installationa and it wouldn't even run from the cd. I finally had to take the drive out of my machine and reformat it with my laptop. I then was able to run a fresh installation, but only after I had done a total windows reformat.

Did I do something wrong? Isn't Ghost supposed to be very good. How do I use this program properly?

Thanks.

Andy

 

[dunkster]

I used Ghost 2002 for some time, and recently purchased Acronis TrueImage8.

I think both are basically unreliable bloatware.

I've been using Image for DOS: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image.html

It's less than $20, runs from a boot disk and has proven quite reliable. I've successfully created and restored backup images of my OS partition several times with this software. Byte-for-byte image verification is included.

Good reliable software.

 

[BlueWeasel]

I've previously used Ghost v7 and recently switched to True Image v8. I've had 3-4 Ghost images either saved on another drive or part of a CD set, that were corrupted and I couldn't restore them. It got to the point where I didn't trust the integrity of the images.

I like the fact that I can check the integrity of the images from within True Image. So far, I've not had any problems retoring images with the new software.

*knocks on wood*