Reviewed by: umichkid on 10-Oct-08 Rating:

Strengths:user-friendly, reputation

Weaknesses:none so far

Summary:Any computer users should back up their data as hard drive failures are not uncommon. Norton Ghost allows users to back up their data easily with an ergonomically designed user interface. I would highly recommend this product to those with valuable data on their computers.

Reviewed by: woodsley on 01-Sep-08 Rating:

Strengths:excellent system recovery disk

Weaknesses:none

Summary:I upgraded my system with norton ghost 14 from version 12 and I am happy with it. It is working very nicely with my vista operating system, e.g. no hang-up issue. This version is very much the same with version 12 except it was built specifically for vista.

Reviewed by: acbarclay on 22-Jun-08 Rating:

Strengths:It is probably a good file backup program.

Weaknesses:It does not create an image for a system backup.

Summary:Prior versions of Ghost have created images for system backups. Without changing the name, Norton has changed the program from an image program to a file backup program. There are better file backup programs available, and it is unfair to change the nature of a program without changing the program name.

Reviewed by: N/A on 17-May-08 Rating:

Strengths:None. OH the program was actually on the CD.

Weaknesses:False and misleading advertising.

Summary:I have a dead laptop. THought I could boot to the CD, execute a backup onto the USB drive I have, then do a full hard disk wipe and reload. NOPE!
I got the data off the laptop the old fashioned way by physically removing it.
Then I installed Ghost onto a corporate identical laptop, backed it up to the USB drive. Installed it onto the dead laptop. NOPE!
So I have to restore the dead laptop by hand. Buyer beware! because you cannot return this once you find that it sucks.
OH also I am a Linux guy. After you install this crap, they THEN tell you that it doesn\'t backup Grub bootloader hard disks, Red Hat Enterprise linux disks, nor any disks with Grub 2. So that\'s like um 50-75% of the linux installations out there? OH but the advertising materials say it can backup linux disks. No caveats, like the one they tell you AFTER the fact. Oh did I mention? I run CentOS.
SO this product has not helped me at all. It is garbage. I\'m going to try Clonezilla (an open source one) then fallback to Acronis\' True Image that I saw some \"from bare metal\" recovery messages.

Reviewed by: comersha on 17-May-08 Rating:

Strengths:Very useful. Great function!

Weaknesses:Sometimes, it fails to restore.

Summary:It is a very helpful software to pretect your machine. It has great functions such as backup and restore from system failures. However, sometimes it fails to restore. I don\'t know the reason, but I did meet once.

Reviewed by: zhengjie76 on 17-May-08 Rating:

Strengths:Easy to use. Powerful

Weaknesses:It has overlap features with Norton 360 V2.0

Summary:It is a necessary tool to backup and restore your system. It is easy to use. Full system and file backups can be easily created using this software. System can be restored based on the backups. It is a very useful software, but it overlap features with Norton 360, so sometimes, we feel confused which one we should use.

Reviewed by: longterm57 on 12-May-08 Rating:

Strengths:I have made backups of all my hard drive without a problem to a USB 1T drive. I have been using Ghost for a few years now and have not had a problem. Easy to use.

Weaknesses:None that I have found, BUT, I still have not done a full restore.

Summary:It has always found my USB drive and I have done everything but a restore. No problems found so far and has always completed the backups. At the very least it gives me peace of mind knowing I have something to fall back on.

Reviewed by: eDeals123 on 05-May-08 Rating:

Strengths:New interface, fairly quick at backing up your data.

Weaknesses:It seems to take a long time for the recovery CD to boot up

Summary:My first impression with Norton\'s Ghost 14 was that I was actually running Norton\'s Save & Restore 2.0. Ghost 14\'s user interface is almost identical. I found Ghost 14 to be reliable for backing up. I didn\'t get a chance to use the recovery CD much since I didn\'t want to wipe out the data on my laptop which already works fine. I did however boot up with the recovery disk and other than being slow to boot it seemed to work fine.

Reviewed by: simenz on 03-May-08 Rating:

Strengths:It installs easily and so far the features are intuitive and work well

Weaknesses:-this product is slow, bloated, and only half as functional as early versions

Summary:When I first installed Ghost it let me know at once that I had a
problem with my RAM. Instead of the 518 MB I had last week, it
detected 448 MB. A quick check of my system shows that Ghost was
correct although there apparently is a bug that can cause the RAM to
show less. I think that probably having the minum RAM necessary is a
bad idea. It allowed me to complete the install but warned me that
certain resources may not work due to the RAM issue.

I then ran the driver validation and discovered that two of my drivers
were not available in the Symantic, one was a USB Linksys Wireless-G
USB network adapter. The second was a Packet Scheduler Miniport.
Neither essential to getting a computer up and running after a disaster
so I save the log as text file to deal with later.

I\'m not going through all of the various parts of the program because
there are a lot of features, but I would urge everyone who buys this to
check the Read.me file for known bugs and conflicts.

Reviewed by: hardingdgh on 23-Apr-08 Rating:

Strengths:Does the backup

Weaknesses:Apparently doesn\'t log flag errors (something I read, not something I personally detected)

Summary:I have been using Ghost since Ghost 9. I like it. I\'m not sure if this version is that much better. I haven\'t tried the FTP capability. My big concern is that I\'ll fill the target disk. It doesn\'t seem to run any faster. Still being able to backup your computer is critical. I\'ve had some PC failures and I hate having to reinstall everything. The only problem is that I have come across backups that have been corrupted. When I was researching wether to buy NG14 or Acronis Home 11 that Ghost will log if there is an error creating a backup image volume but it will not pop up an error flag stating that the backup failed. I know that I have come across invalid images. I think that Ghost should be fixed to register that the backup failed. I remember that it says the backup is done. YOU MUST CHECK THE LOG YOURSELF to see if the backup volume failed!

Reviewed by: wfli on 13-Apr-08 Rating:

Strengths:easy to use, very powerful for backup and recovery

Weaknesses:none

Summary:This is a great product from norton. It is very easy to use and there are a lot of features I need to go over, like FTP Backup.
It may seems to be expensive at first glance. But after the rebates, it is very affordable.

Reviewed by: old_cotton on 10-Apr-08 Rating:

Strengths:Very Stable. User Friendly. Nice new GUI. Supports FTP.

Weaknesses:Still need the CD when doing the system recovery.

Summary:I bought this 14.0 version to replace my old Norton Ghost 10.0. Its GUI looks much better than its predecessor. The installation is a breeze. You just need to follow the wizard. The configuration is like a breeze, very easy to do. I don\'t see significant speed improvement compare with version 10.0 though. I used Ghost for more than 5 years. I knew there are other softwares which can do the same or even more things. However, the reason I pick it up is that it\'s very stable. Especially when you are doing a system backup, picking up a stable software is the most important IMO. Highly recommend to computer manias who often upgrade computers.

Reviewed by: sierra_nevadas on 06-Apr-08 Rating:

Strengths:Industry standard

Weaknesses:Expensive

Summary:I just added another computer to our house, and wanted to take advantage of Ghost\'s ability to control backups remotely. For this, you need a version of Ghost 12 or 14 (what happened to version 13??!!) on each computer. Installation was a snap, and I was able to configure the backups so that the data could be put to a home netowrk hard drive. No bloat factor to the software, so that is good. The GUI is fairly intuitive, though I had to use google as to what the various settings meant when doing a C:/ drive copy (I wanted to make sure that the drive that I copied would be bootable). The software is kind of expensive standalne, when you consider that you can sometimes get it bundled with Norton Systemworks Premier.

Reviewed by: revolter on 31-Mar-08 Rating:

Strengths:proven backup software, easy recovery from system problems (provided you did backup when there was no problems)

Weaknesses:Inability to do backups when booted from the CD disc

Summary:I use ghost for years to make backup of my system disc to be able quickly recover when needed (and I surely do need it often), but I am disappointed there is no backup function when booted from CD Norton Ghost 14, I might finally give up and move to different product from different company.

Reviewed by: AwsomeDeals on 31-Mar-08 Rating:

Strengths:Full System backup, restore form system failure

Weaknesses:little expensive

Summary:Full system backup (disk image), File and folder backup, LightsOut Restore Advanced compression and encryption—Minimizes storage space and helps keep sensitive documents safe.
Excellent software for backing up the desktop at home with no hassles. Absolute safe to backup photos, music which I used to loss very often due to disk failure. This new product camp up with excellent features and would definitely recomend this.