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Former Member
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When I started using Norton System Works 2005 Pro, it came with a program called Norton Ghost
----------------------------------------In essence what it does, is copies a complete mirror image of your boot drive You can copy a perfect mirror image of your Drive C: to a Subdirectory of you own choosing on another partition on the same drive But preferably if you have two drives it is safer to copy it to a partition on your second drive It takes 12 minutes to back up Drive C: to Drive E:/graham It compresses and verifies on the fly and 5.2 Gig is reduced to 2,9 Gig allowing to easily fit on a DVD if necessary I do this every time I install a new program and if anything goes wrong I just restore it and reboot, and everything is back to normal You can also restore individual Directories and files as well I cannot begin to describe the grief this has helped me to avoid I also back it up to a rewritable DVD every two weeks which takes 40 minutes running in the background I have had reason to restore from drive to drive but have never had to use the DVD backup [Good to have an independant backup though] I genuinely believe that the cost of Norton System Works Pro 2005 has earned its keep over and over again just for the benefit of Norton Ghost alone I believe you can buy a standalone version but it is included in Norton Systemworks 2005 Pro for only £18.00 more and you get Norton Antivirus 2005, Norton Utilities, Norton Cleensweep, Norton Cleanup, Norton Goback plus Extra Features include, System Optimiser, Process Viewer, Performance test, Connection Keep Alive, and Checkit Diagnostics Norton Utilities portion includes Speed Disk, Norton System Doctor, Unerase Wizard, Norton Disk Doctor and Norton Win Doctor Norton GoBack allows you to do what system restore does but is much superior The best all round System management program I have had the pleasure to use Well that is it, a lot of products in one package for your money and built in peace of mind to boot [pun intended] Regards [Edit 7 times, last edit by Former Member at Jan 28, 2005 11:57:20 PM] |
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Worth the Bump
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Worth the Bump I AGREE!!!  |
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After reading this thread, I bought Norton Systemworks 2005 Premier (the version that includes Norton Ghost) and had an exasperating 24 hours in which I decided that GoBack and Ghost would not work on my computer because my 20 GB hard disk (18.4 GB effective) was too small. I was trying to use Ghost to write to my new LiteOn DVD writer. A few weeks later I tried my copy on a relative's computer (allowed under Norton's 30-day free trial policy) but Ghost would not backup to his CD/R drive, even though he had a 40 GB hard disk (maybe 80 GB, I cannot remember for sure). Since he also ran it overnight, I advised him, by phone, to use Nero BackItUp, which works well on my machine. We both use Windows XP SP2. The other Norton diagnostic and system maintenance tools seem to work well.
So there can be problems. Problems exist to be overcome, but I like to let other people come up with the work-arounds. mycrofth |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
After reading this thread, I bought Norton Systemworks 2005 Premier (the version that includes Norton Ghost) and had an exasperating 24 hours in which I decided that GoBack and Ghost would not work on my computer because my 20 GB hard disk (18.4 GB effective) was too small. I was trying to use Ghost to write to my new LiteOn DVD writer. A few weeks later I tried my copy on a relative's computer (allowed under Norton's 30-day free trial policy) but Ghost would not backup to his CD/R drive, even though he had a 40 GB hard disk (maybe 80 GB, I cannot remember for sure). Since he also ran it overnight, I advised him, by phone, to use Nero BackItUp, which works well on my machine. We both use Windows XP SP2. The other Norton diagnostic and system maintenance tools seem to work well. So there can be problems. Problems exist to be overcome, but I like to let other people come up with the work-arounds. mycrofth Hi MycroftThis may sound like a silly question, but was you using rewritable DVD's and if so did you preformat them first |
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Former Member
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Hello Graham,
No. The rewriteable DVDs were still fairly expensive so I used a cheap DVD-R (or maybe +R). Similarly, I tried a CD-R on my relative's computer. We both had Windows XP Home Edition SP2. The trouble was it trundled merrily away for hours, apparently creating a compressed drive image, then balked before writing to rhe removable media. mycrofth p.s. That clunk at the door was the shipment from Amazon. I will get to see if my cousin's granddaughter enjoys Arthur Ransome's stories about the Lake District. The first 5 books in paperback in his 14-book Swallows & Amazons series. She is probably a year too young. But I remember enjoying a book of his I found at the library, then 2 more about different people. I did not realize then that they were all part of a much larger series. |
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