Norton ghost Creating bootable disk to run Ghost Norton Ghost, free and safe download. Norton Ghost latest version: Automatically back up and recover everything on your computer. Norton Ghost is last representative of the original like of Ghost. Using DOS has its limitations but it also introduces important advantages. First of all the image both creation and restoration of the image is performed without interference of some possibly parasitic programs like spyware and viruses.
That makes Ghost especially attractive for fighting those beasts. Norton speed in copying partitions disk to disk is very impressive, speed of copying igmage to DVD often sucks. Since image-based backup only copies raw data, backups made using this method do not contain a direct catalog of files that can be used for the restoration of a single file.
Amazing feature of Ghost is that it transcend this limitation: it permits to mount a partition image as a logical drive and can recover a single file from within the image-based backup. You do not need to restore the image on the same drive: during restore Norton Ghost automatically adjust the restore process for disk parameters of the target disk, so within some reasonable range you can use a different disk for a target than you used for the backup.
This feature is very convenient for disk upgrades. In this case you usually do not have any problems with installed applications. Differences covered by Ghost and similar programs include a difference in the size, number of heads, number of tracks per cylinder, or even the numbers or size of the sectors in a given track. Ghost is much better then many similar often half-baked commercial partition backup programs like partition backup option in Nero Backup. In the latter case you might be deeply disappointed if you have disks other then IDE when you need to restore the partition.
I was ;-. For typical windows XP C drive say 10G of data Ghost takes approximately 25 min and produces image approximately 7G in size. For comparison to create a RAR archive for the 4G partition takes over an hour on the same computer. I still feel more comfortable with Ghost more then with Ghost Ghost 9. For example if your computer is infected with spyware it should be restored using DOS boot.
You can burn the image directly to DVD Norton 8 supports many drives out of the box, but the speed is very slow.
Generally it's not a recommended mode of using Ghost, at least for me. You should have enough extra drive space to store the image on the hard drive IMHO with current desktop hard drives it's typical to have half drive empty; with laptop USB drive can be used. That might create several problems for which Norton Ghost 9 and 10 can be a better solutions:. Recently Norton Ghost emerged as a powerful anti-spyware tool. SeeFighting Spyware Paranoia.
This is especially important for computers from vendors that does not supply 'factory install image' on a special partition of the harddrive HP and IBM PCs have such partitions and a special software to restore them. Note: Older versions of Norton Ghost and earlier cost almost nothing and are still quite capable for users with regular desktops less so for laptops.
It makes a perfect backup solution: you can create a compressed image of the disk partition and then burn to DVD each week. In most cases 'clean' image of the boot drive usually around G for a typical Windows XP installation can be compressed by Ghost into the image that is G. Absence of a set of 'recovery' Ghost images can be considered as one of the most dangerous mistakes any PC user can make and can cost many hours of troubleshooting even if you know windows reasonably well.
If you have a really large set of installed programs and as a result your C drive compresses into more then one double layer DVD you can try to shrink the size of your OS partition before that. Actually non-essential programs can be installed on the second partition instead of typicalC:Program Files location that is used a s a default by most programs. Norton Ghost can be used for resizing partitions as it always restores the image using the size of target partition.
For example I used it once to extend the size of C : partition on my laptop. The laptop has a 30G drive that was split into three partitions:. I did not have a version of Partition Magic 8. The whole operation took more then three hours and I probably would save some time by driving to the store and buying Partition Magic 8. This story began as a review of g4l, a Norton Ghost-type utility for Linux. But that's not how it ended up.
Instead it's a story of two open source ghosts: g4u and g4l. As ghost stories go, this one is more sad than scary: the tale of a bastard son refusing to recognize his lineage, and of the resulting bad feelings on both sides of the dispute.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start at the beginning. Hubert Feyrer wrote g4u about six years ago. G4u's name is shorthand for 'Ghost for Unix. Although Feyrer no longer has time to maintain the project -- he is now working on his Ph.
It works just fine. I cloned a local partition on the same drive, after spending just a little time matching up the partitions as I knew them in Linux hda1, hda2, hda3 with the names they are known by in BSD. You can also clone entire drives, or backup to and restore from an FTP server. All in all, g4u is a very useful tool.
It's lean and mean, and it works. Feyrer licensed his gift to the world of free software using the BSD license, which requires nothing more than attribution of his work.
Early last year, Ghost for Linux appeared on freshmeat. The earliest versions of g4l bore a striking resemblance to g4u, but there was no attribution given Hubert Feyrer or g4u in the GPL-licensed Linux version.
The resemblance between the two projects was so striking that g4u's creator Hubert Feyrer felt compelled to perform a detailed analysis to demonstrate that g4l was based on g4u. That analysis was apparently more than g4l's creator -- known only as nme -- could bear. He walked away from the project in a huff, saying of Feyrer that 'He now wants to force me by law, to add his license and credits to the code I wrote.
This is not acceptable for me, so I quit work on g4l. Because of certain people, programming isn't much fun anymore. And quit he did, but the project did not die.
This is an open source project, after all. A new maintainer named Frank Stephen stepped forward and took over. It would have been a perfect time to heal the rift between g4u and g4l, but that was not to be. The new maintainer insisted -- against all the evidence -- that in his opinion, the original project had not been based on g4u.
Besides, Stephen points out that in his opinion the project is so much different now than it was in the beginning that the whole issue is 'old news. Whether that is true or not, the two do share a certain aversion to giving Feyrer and g4u their due.
Moen commented on the freshmeat project page:. Just when it looked as if there might not be a reasonable man within earshot of the g4l project, one stepped up. Michael Setzer II had made some modifications to g4l that he and other users needed. Since the project had an open upload policy at the time, he was able to make his version available to others. Both of the original authors, nme and Frank Stephen, eventually contacted Setzer, and gave him alone the ability to upload new releases to the project.
Probably the most important change Setzer has made was to finally give Hubert Feyrer and g4u some long overdue props. The opening screen for the current version of g4l now states:. The disclaimer continues with a history of the project, including its maintainers and releases since the beginning. You have to give Setzer credit -- he even included a link to Feyrer's code analysis page. But although it is a big step forward, it's not what Feyrer would like to see.
What he wants to see is for both licenses to be lived up to. In response to an email query about the disclaimer he added to g4l, Setzer told me:. Given the resolute refusal of g4l's original authors to credit 4gu as their starting point, that's probably as good as it's going to get. Setzer cannot speak for either of them, so he can't do as Feyrer wants. Feyrer, on the other hand, doesn't have the time to go through the latest version of g4l code to see what's left that was copied from his work.
In the end I'm left with the feeling that something has been stolen -- something intangible. One of the greatest benefits that comes to the authors of free software is the feeling that they have done something worthwhile for the benefit of all, and the ego gratification of seeing others extend the work. To see your work taken by others and then claimed as their own steals both the joy and the gratification. As Isaac Newton is reputed to have said some years ago, and open source people are fond of repeating because it so aptly describes the process, 'If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants' -- a noble sentiment that, at least until Setzer appeared, was not a part of this tale.
Its absence has left an indelible mark of shame on the project. Ghost can create backup images of your entire hard drive to local storage, network drives, and optical discs including DVDs , so you'll be certain that every bit of information is copied without fail. Norton handled media spanning flawlessly; Acronis does not support DVD writing. The new incremental feature lets you create a baseline image, and then smaller incremental images moving forward, typically multiple times per day.
Full images can take a long time to complete and can slow down your foreground operations if you're invoking a backup before installing something new, for instance. We measured a 30 percent CPU drain during the full imaging, but incremental are fast. If you need to restore a file or folder from a full or incremental image, the Symantec Backup Image Browser lets you view and extract individual files and folders from your images. We found it a bit inconvenient to have to choose the image to restore from first.
We would prefer to choose the file first, and then be presented with a list of restore points. Also, the interface would be more helpful if it presented links to common file storage areas like the My Documents folder and the desktop.
Norton Ghost 9. Limited time offer. My shipping copy of True Image 8 completed an image of the same file in 2 minutes, 42 seconds, but it produced a smaller, 1. I know that the Feature request for mounting a ghost file has been entered in the past but no way to say if it will become part of the product any time soon.
It's sad that companies cast off their users so easily. Sure, the program is discontinued, but it costs very little to keep the support files online, especially for a backup-soultion where you can reaasonably expect back-ups to be kept for years to decades. They could open-source the gho file format and explorer program since they don't use it anymore.
I am certainly glad that I abandonned Norton Ghost for True Image, though I should take a look at open source options or the most-future proof system. It wouldn't go open source they still use most of the same technoligy in the corporate version of Ghost Solution Suite. But I agree I don't like seeing good products get let go. Symantec have end of lifed many good products, and I am sure it was nothing more than a financial decision. Many products canned by Symantec were originally produced by companies they acquired, and the Symantec policy seems to have been to extract as much revenue as possible out of each product line and then can it.
Staff that did the original development inevitably moved on to other employers and skills were lost, leading to new releases having more bugs than the older versions, and thus to user unhappiness. It will be interesting to see whether Broadcomm bring a different dynamic to the table but at the end of the day there are shareholders to satisfy and profit levels to be achieved.
WinPE gets updated every six months in line with the major updates of Win 10, so for a free tool, is well maintained and in my experience, has worked very well. Skip to main content Press Enter. Sign in. Skip auxiliary navigation Press Enter. Skip main navigation Press Enter. Toggle navigation. Search Options.
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