Symantec's Norton Ghost has a long history of saving Windows systems by creating backups of a full drive that could be stored on—and restored from—another partition on a hard drive, removable media, or even across a network. Ghost got the job done, but its technology lagged behind the rival. Ghost always made you reboot from a floppy disk or CD to make a backup, whereas Drive Image could create full backups in the background while you continued to work in Windows. With Norton Ghost 9.0, the program finally catches up with Drive Image—because it essentially is Drive Image, which Symantec picked up when it acquired PowerQuest last year. This enhanced release's features include incremental backups, the ability to restore a system to the state it was in at a specific time, and a file browser that can pluck individual files and folders from backup images. Ghost 9.0 discards the gloomy gray interface of earlier versions for a bright, wizard-based one in which you create backup images either manually or on a preset schedule of full and incremental backups.

You can make manual backups to any storage medium, including removable drives, but scheduled backups can only be made to your local hard drive or to network drives. When you need to restore, you start up from the bootable CD, built on Microsoft's Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment), which slowly but surely finds network drives from which to restore images. Cara Install Windows 7 Bajakan Di Laptop. The new version can also restore backup images created by earlier versions of both Ghost (thanks to the inclusion of Ghost 2003 in the package) and Drive Image. It retains Drive Image's ability to load a backup image as if it were a real drive with a drive letter.

Ghost 9.0 runs only in Windows 2000 or XP, but Ghost 2003 can run under Windows 98, Me, and NT. Overall, we slightly prefer Ghost 9.0 to our previous Editors' Choice in this category, the still-excellent. Ghost 9.0 gets the nod, though, thanks to its ability to put a Windows pre-boot environment on startup disk so that you get the same networking and hardware support on the emergency disk that you get inside Windows (Acronis uses a Linux-based emergency disk). Ghost also has the ability to mount an image file as a drive letter. So all things considered, Ghost 9.0 is the essential tool for rescuing a complete system. It belongs in every serious PC user's toolbox.

Jan 14, 2007. Most Ghost versions are fully compatible with Windows 95 and Windows 98. See the following table: Note: Versions of Windows 95 prior to OSR2 (Windows 95b) do not support FAT32 partitions. Converting the system partition to FAT32 prevents the target computer from booting. Only Windows 95 OEM. Symantec helps consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more.

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