Amazon.co.uk Review
Backups, upgrades and disk management made easier with
Norton Ghost 2003's Windows interface--and it supports NTFS drives under Windows XP.
It's vital to take backups of your system in case anything goes wrong; rather than just copying your files, Ghost 2003 takes a copy of your entire hard drive, files, applications, Windows and all, onto another hard drive or partition, or onto removable media (whether that's a stack of blank CDs or DVDs or an external FireWire, USB or network drive). If you want to copy the contents of one hard drive straight onto another--for instance when you upgrade to a new PC--you can do that directly over a network, USB or parallel connection rather than needing to save the disk image and then restore it.
Ghost 2003 saves the recovery software onto the CD or DVD; for hard drive copies you'll want to create a recovery floppy. And you don't need to actually restore the whole drive just to get a single file back; the Ghost Explorer utility lets you browse through a disk image and retrieve an individual file or folder. You can also check that an image file isn't corrupt without opening or restoring it.
Unless you're backing up a second hard drive that doesn't have Windows on, Ghost needs to work in DOS for storing your disk information as well as when it's time to recover it. Although you get a friendly Windows front end to start with and an icon in the Windows system tray to run backups from, it will need to restart your PC so you'll want to leave it working. The DOS-based utilities like the partition manager are powerful but complex to use. Experienced users will be glad of new features like support for NTFS and burning straight onto CD or DVD discs, but beginners might find the advanced features a little complex, even with the comprehensive manual and the excellent step-by-step tutorials. --Mary Branscombe
Manufacturer's Description
Norton Ghost 2003 is a flexible and robust imaging solution designed to provide home PC users and small businesses with high-performance utilities for system upgrading, backup and recovery. Symantec's Norton Ghost 2003 allows customers to save valuable time while protecting their data by providing an easy-to-use Windows-based interface that streamlines the backup and restore process. Norton Ghost 2003 offers small business customers the ability to save and restore images from network drives, providing an ideal solution for protecting critical data from computer disasters. The product allows users to take advantage of the latest high-performance storage and data transfer devices including USB 1.1, 2.0, DVD and FireWire.For increased flexibility, Norton Ghost 2003 supports a wide range of file systems including Linux EXT3, EXT2, Microsoft FAT and NTFS. Norton Ghost offers cloning capabilities for an entire hard drive or specified partitions while automatically determining the partition sizes for the destination drive. Users are also provided with the ability to manipulate disk images, allowing them to easily restore individual files, directories, or entire drives from a Ghost image. Norton Ghost 2003 also enables customers to back up hard disk drives by writing disk images directly to many popular CD-R/ CD-RW and DVD/ DVD-RW drives, as well as a variety of the most popular removable magnetic media, including ZIP, JAZ and more. This functionality offers users the tools needed to conduct weekly backups of their data and perform specific events, such as migrating to a new operating system.
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