| Norton Ghost 12, Upgrade Edition (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Norton from Symantec
Category: Software
List Price: £29.99
Buy New: £28.12
You Save: £1.87 (6%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3345
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Xp Professional, Windows Xp Home Edition, Windows Vista, Microsoft Xp Media Center Edition
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.3 x 1.4
MPN: 11866539
EAN: 5397011715319
ASIN: B000Q87R20
Release Date: January 8, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
Poor quality product - key features don't work October 29, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I upgraded from Ghost 9 to Ghost 12 specifically to use the Recovery Point feature as I am upgrading from XP to Vista and wanted a restore point. Sadly, this much hyped feature doesn't work. The problem is that unless the source disk is completely clean (no bad sectors, no CRC failures) the Recovery Point simply fails. When it does fail there is a link to follow to download somthing called Autofix. This doesn't work either - in fact, it won't install at all (it appears to download ok, but the install doesn't run). When Autofix failed I followed the link to the Symantec tech support pages only to find this takes you to Ghost 10 info and not Ghost 12. Booting from the ISO image CD that Ghost 12 creates (which does work) allows you to run various diagnostics on the hard disk, which took just over 4 hours on my 60Gb disk and reported no errors. However, attemtping to create the Recovery Point still failed, reporting a CRC failure.
This is a very poor piece of software. The backup may work, but given the other key function (Recovery Point) doesn't I wouldn't trust it - I certainly wouldn't wait until I needed to restore before finding out. I would very strongly suggest buying a different product - Ghost 12 is, in my view, a very poor quality and Symantec must be able to do better than this.
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