One of the first things I noticed when installing this was how quick and easy it is to install, this of course keeping in line with all their other current products. Thankfully Symantec realise this and have produced a program that is still just as powerful as it's predecessors, but one that also has the ease of use of all their latest offerings. Now I do use Ghost in my work quite extensively, but I use the older 2003 version as I do a lot of PC imaging both by bootable Ghost CD/DVD's and by network PXE booting and that's great for mass re-imaging/building in a corporate environment, but when it comes to the home user and their PC backup requirements then the 2003 version of Ghost is just to complicated. The last version of this I reviewed was Version 9 back in 2005, and all I can say is that this application has sure grown up in the 5 years since I last looked at it. This Review: 9.5/10 Functionality: Features: Ease of Install: Ease of Use: And you can backup to most storage devices, including external hard drives, networked drives, recordable and rewritable CDs and DVDs, and now even Blu-ray Disc. Enhanced compression helps reduce the amount or required storage. Norton Ghost lets you decide what gets backed up (full system or specific files and folders) and when (scheduled and event-based backups). And if you system should fail, you can quickly restore your PC and recover lost or damaged files - even if your computer's operating system won't start. Enhanced encryption, error checking, Cold Imaging (backup without installing), and new Windows 7 BitLocker support help ensure your backups are safe. Norton Ghost protects your applications, settings, folders, files and everything else on your PC with professional-grade backup and recovery. Available: August 2010 Norton Ghost 15.0 product reviews No fee was requested, offered nor accepted by KIWIreviews or the reviewers themselves - these are genuine, unpaid consumer reviews. Disclosure Statement FULL DISCLOSURE: A number of units of this product have, at some time, been provided to KIWIreviews by Symantec or their agents for the sole purposes of unbiased, independent reviews.
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