Norton Ghost 12 Dos Version Check

Does anyone out there really know how Ghost 9.0 does its saves? I ask because of some things I've observed while using it. It just makes me immensely curious. Observation #1: Ghost's speed. Ghost certainly isn't doing a regular copy.

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It works much too quickly to be doing a 'logical' copy of my system's directory structure and files. Observation #2: Ghost is 'quiet.' By 'quiet' I mean that there's no rapid-fire, high-speed movement of the disk drive's heads on either the drive being saved, nor on the destination drive. In contrast, with a normal directory/file copy, there's considerable head movement as the disk refers to the FAT, the directory entries, and the files themselves, I presume. Observation #3: You shouldn't remove Ghost from your System Tray.

Thinking I could improve my system's performance a tad and because I didn't see a reason for Ghost to run in the System Tray at all times, I simply removed the Ghost shortcut from my Startup folder. How much that helped, if at all, I do not know. If you do prevent Ghost from running at all times, this is what happened to me. When I tried to run Ghost from my Start/Program menu, although the program promptly started, almost all the normal function buttons you'd normally see did not appear. I also got an error message like 'Failure to Connect.' ' The only function button that appeared was labeled 'Connect.'

' After re-connecting (I don't know what Ghost is 'connecting' to), I was able to use Ghost. However, when I tried to run just an Incremental Backup (just the new/modified files), Ghost did another Baseline Backup instead. From this last observation, this tells me that Ghost needs to run at all times in order to keep track of which files are changing. Any thoughts, anyone? Gosh I really hate to say this but, I have given up on Symantec products. Their online and outsourced technical support was unable to aid me in getting a couple issues solved.

One of these was Ghost. I wanted to use Ghost to back up my computer as a restoration point later so I did not have to go through the trouble of reinstalling the OS and all my software.

I was trying to use Ghost to backup to CDs. But alas, it would always error out. So while this doesn't answer your question of how it works, I can just say it didn't work at all for me. There are other backup products out there and I would suggest looking at those. I ended up using a cheap one that worked but I can't say its the best. I didn't do a lot of research on this, just needed a quick fix. I used NTI backup now.

I don't know how it actually works, only the writers of the program would know that. But Nortons Ghost 10 works well for me. I cloned my computer this week with Ghost 10 onto a Seagate Barracuda 160 Internal (removable) H/D.

So far I have programmed it to do an incremental back-up once a week at 8pm on a Friday evening when I am not using the computer. I do notice that it backs up if I download anything other than at the programmed time. Once a month it does a full backup of my entire system, all 56GB.

So I can recommend it for cloning your computer, it is user friendly also. Nels, Yes, I've considered Acronis. Although I haven't been disappointed in Ghost yet, I've been tempted to delve into Acronis for quite a while. Keep in mind that I'm using Ghost version 9.

I've heard all kinds of stories about Ghost, but sometimes you have to wonder about the people who are using it. No, I'm not referring to you, Nels; I'm talking about those folks who sometimes try to get 'under the hood' of their PC, too much. You know, there are folks out there who are trying to teach their PC to make breakfast for them. Well, everyone knows that PCs can't make breakfast; only Macs can do that! (Kidding) The one thing I tried to fiddle with is removing Ghost from my Startup folder so it wouldn't be in my System Tray all the time; this apparently was not the right thing to do. This didn't permanently break my Ghost installation, but it required me to do a 'reconnect' when I started it. Just a single mouse click.