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| Norton Ghost 14.0 | 
 enlarge | From: Symantec
Category: Software
List Price: $69.99
Buy New: $39.00
You Save: $30.99 (44%)
New (39) Used (8) from $32.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  79 reviews
Sales Rank: 88
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.2
MPN: 13517991
Model: 13561463
UPC: 037648622356
EAN: 0037648622356
ASIN: B0012YKRSI
Release Date: February 18, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Another solid product from Symantec. October 12, 2008
The only reason I gave Ghost 14 four stars is because during the backup screens you do not see all the partitions on your hard drive in the default configuration. A novice user would not know that other hidden partitions exist on their computer and would probably not backup them. If the purpose of Ghost 14 is to backup an entire computer then the user should see all partitions that exist on their hard disks as the default configuration. Let the user hide any partition as an option since I know hidden partitions are important too. If your hard disk fails you do want everything back including the hidden partitions. In my opinion the menu configurations of Ghost 14 are more complicated than what it needs to be for the average user.
Gone are the days of Ghost 2003 when Symantec would allow a home user to backup all his computers at home with a single copy of Ghost. Now we must all purchase one license of Ghost per PC. The only Reason I purchased Ghost 14 was because DELL messed up their bios on my new laptop so Ghost 2003 would not work with their USB ports. Ghost 2003 would allow you to create your own boot CD disks if you knew how to create boot CD disks with Nero and knew how to modify batch files. You were able to boot Ghost from a CD and backup your entire computer to an external/internal drive or burn a CD or DVD backup. Ghost 2003 is still able to backup all my other computers with Windows Vista and Windows XP (32bit and 64bit versions). The Ghost 14 bootable CD only restores images and does not have any backup software available so it behaves like a rescue CD. All backups in Ghosts 14 are conveniently done when logged in to a Windows XP or Windows Vista account unlike Ghost 2003 which requires you to use a bootable CD, USB Drive, or floppy disks.
install bugs October 3, 2008
Great product, does what it is supposed to do, once it is installed, but the installation!!! Once I found the link that allowed their tech to figure out what was wrong, and that took me some doing, after I had tried to install it a couple of times, including using the Norton Utility that is supposed to clean out old Norton installations, it took the tech about an hour to figure out what the problems were and fix them.
He was excellent, superb, obvioiusly in South Asia, and you have to be willing to allow them to take over your computer, but why was it so difficult (I run Windows XP on AMD Athlon) to install, and so hard to find the on line tech support link?
 Does not work as boot disc September 26, 2008
I use Norton Ghost 11 to backup/restore XP partitions, it's fast and works great.
Boot from CD, choose partition to backup/restore, choose destination partition/file, and you are done. It even compresses the data when doing backup to image file.
I tried to boot from the Norton Ghost 14 CD and it gave an I/O error and stopped.
I'm going back to v11, I've never had any problems with it.
Norton Ghost 14... downhill battle September 10, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had previously used Norton Ghost product in older versions (around Ghost 5 or so). Recently my parent's computer had a hard drive crash. After successfully diagnosing the problem and correcting it, I decided not to trust it in the future... and that I would ghost the old drive to a new, larger drive.
I had a limited amount of time, and wanted to get the now running PC returned, so I went over to the Norton site and paid full price for a download version of the software.
Ghost 14 is very different than the older versions. First, it installs several services on your system. Second it comes with an iso image for a "recovery cd." The "recovery cd" has no ability to copy a drive. The only way to do it is through the windows drive copy function. Well, I tried this several times and the imaged drive would not boot into windows, and it froze before reaching the welcome screen. After several attempts at re-imaging I gave up and made a few phone calls. One of my friends came over with a CD boot disc made from Acronis which worked flawlessly on the first try.
It seems I've wasted $80 on some useless software. This might be okay if you are looking for a program to automatically backup files to a second or external drive... but there's freeware programs that do that just fine without the need for all the services. PASS on Ghost 14.
 new upgrade model lot of function copare to old 14.0 ghost model September 5, 2008
i like new function these 1.NEW! FTP backup--Copies recovery points to a FTP site for easier offsite backup management
2.NEW! Symantec ThreatCon integration--Leverages intelligence from Symantec's industry-leading security research organization by triggering incremental backups whenever ThreatCon reaches a specified threat level. Great for computers without antivirus protection.
3.EXCLUSIVE! Google Desktop(tm) integration--Makes data recovery even faster with searchable backup indexes
4.EXCLUSIVE! Google Desktop(tm) integration--Makes data recovery even faster with searchable backup indexes
these function are not include old ghost 14.0(13561463). so i higly recommend you plz buy new ghost 14.0(13517991).
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