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Norton Ghost 2003 Reviews

Norton Ghost 2003 facili-tates backup, restoration and cloning data for disaster recovery. With the new release, even NTFS partitions in Windows NT environment can be backed up and restored. It also sup-ports backing up, restoring and cloning EXT3 file systems in Linux. To perform all these tasks, Norton needs to copy all the required files in the virtual partition it creates. This is a space constraint on the Mas-ter Boot Record (MBR), which is the location of the partition. The disaster recovery facility lets you prepare a bootable disk, which you can use to start the computer. Unlike the previous ver-sion where you had to back up the entire drive, Norton Ghost 2003 lets you back up just the partitions. Another important addi-tion is the support for external USB drives.
Norton Ghost also provides a unique feature o letting you explore the con tents of an image file as if i were a folder on a local drive You can even check the integri ty of the image file as soon a it is backed up, before proceeding to restore What the soft ware lacks is an intu itive interface and a scheduler for taking backups. Its interface is limited to the wiz ards for setting up new tasks; after tha it reverts to a DOS based system, effectively bringing the system to a standstill as you cannot mul titask. Though a good product, it is always better to buy the complete system suite rather than just an individual prod-uct. Besides, for first time users, there are other easier-to-use software available.
SPECIFICATIONS:
486 processor, VGA monitor, 16 MB RAM, Windows 98/2000/Me/XP/NT4 SP6a, Internet Explorer 5...

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