You also have the option of making a drive image so if for example you wanted to take all the contents off your main drive and put them onto a new drive then you would use the drive image aka “Copy My Hard Drive” section of the program. With Norton ghost 10.0 you can backup your system as you add stuff to it by making recovery points. This would come in handy if you had a computer doing backups and you were not there to see if the backup was successful or not. The good thing is the choice is yours and you can set the settings the way you want.Īnother interesting option you have is sending any messages regarding the backup to either a log file or have it e-mail to you. You may not want to give the program to much CPU if for example you still want to use the computer while the backup is being made. The more CPU you give the program the faster the backups will be created or restored. You also have the option of telling the program how much CPU you want to devote to the backup process. Norton Ghost 10.0 can also do backups over network and you have options there as well, for example you can set it up to only use so much bandwidth when doing the backup over the network so it don’t bring your network speeds down to much. You can also skip all that and choose to do the backups whenever you want as well. You can tell Ghost 10.0 to backup based on a time of day or a certain day of the week or you can tell it to watch your system and do backups only when you install new software to the system. Norton Ghost 10.0 has some nice features to it for example it can backup software in a few different ways. The biggest difference i can see with Norton Ghost v10.0 is you can do your backups while inside of windows where as v7.0 you had to reboot and load a floppy disk or CD and then back up your files from that. After Using version 7 for so long i decided i would take a look at the newest version 10.0. I started using Norton Ghost around version 7 and thats all i have used because it does what its supposed to and its really simple to use. I have more then once had systems go bad and never had any backup of the data and that can take days to get all your programs and settings back in action. If you happened to have a program like Norton Ghost 10.0 on your machine and it keeps regular backups of all your data then a hard drive/system crash won’t be as bad since you have a up to date backup to restore the system with. I can’t even imagine having a 200 gig hard drive all loaded up with data and then the drive goes bad and i don’t have any way to replace that data. First a big thank you to Symantec for providingĪs drive space continues to grow the need to be able to backup that data also grows.

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