I previously understood that versions with number were generally speaking Entreprise products while versions with year were generally speaking Home products. If you look on their website, they have Norton Ghost 9.0, Norton Ghost 2003, and Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition. Like McAfee, eTrust and a growing number of companies, Symantec seems to have fun just mixing up people with confusing names. From most accounts and reviews, Ghost had almost always been described as a much superior product than Drive Image, but now that Symantec has purchased Powerquest, its only serious competitor in that field, it prefers to settle for the inferior product ! Doesn't this ring a familiar bell to you ? The way it killed Xtree Gold perhaps?įinally, the naming scheme for the different versions of Ghost just drive me nut. The main reason for this big change is that the *.GHO format is gone, in favor of the *.V2I format, which is formely Drive Image. I dunno if this has any effect, but this is strange to say the least. And BTW, WinPE loads with Pacific Time displayed by default while I am EST Time. Moreover, Symantec WinPE version only allows to run preselected tool (THEIR antivirus, THEIR partition utilities, THEIR network drivers, and unless you work hard to create your own version of WinPE, you are now in a totally closed system. My only guess: that version of WinPE is in English while my hd OS is in French. If there is a way to create an image from WinPE on CD rather than Windows on hard disk, well I missed it because the whole gizmo didn't work as expected. And for reasons unknown to me, my trial CD could boot but couldn't launch the Ghost recovery tool anyway! Lame. It takes 5 minutes to boot on my Athlon 2600+. 10 times longer than it takes to boot the former version from a floppy. This minimal OS is a-w-f-u-l-l-y slow (approx. On the recovery side, Ghost 9.0 now required to boot from the original CD, not anymore from a floppy, and to load WinPE. Not taking into account that now you need a licence for each computer you want to backup ! Formely, a single floppy could handle any computer without any need to install the program. It may seems an improvement for newbies, but now Ghost HAS to be installed on the system in order to make any backup ! Okay, fine, it can backup live while you work (who need that ?) and backup are now incremental (this is the only good thing), but with this new requirement, you need to install the program on each computer and it is very invasive with a default non-removable traybar icon and a number of low-level system drivers. Now, everything is Windows with very few options. The core of Ghost which was a small, portable, and powerful DOS executable seems to be gone. This is a quick report of what I understood: I had a quick try tonight with the new Norton Ghost 9.0, and to my dismay, everything that was good is gone.
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