Norton Ghost

A virus might infect your machine and you may lose your data. Your hard drive might fail and you could lose your data. There are many possible scenarios that end with you losing your data. That is why it is important to keep your important data backed up. Symantec’s Norton Ghost was developed for this precise task. This application will perform automatic backups at the time you specify and, should anything bad occur, it will recover your data. What we have here is a nice backup and restore solution for Windows-powered machines.

Speaking about the Windows operating system, Norton Ghost can be installed on anything from Windows XP onward. A simple setup wizard will guide you through the installation process; everything will go along smoothly. When you run Norton Ghost for the first time, you will be presented with a Welcome prompt that tells you what the application does, invites you to activate the product, run LiveUpdate, and launch Easy Setup so that you can define and run your first backup task.

Using the tabs at the top, you will be able to easily navigate and access Norton Ghost’s functionality. The aforementioned tabs are: Home (presents an overview of the application: backup status, backup destination, backup tasks), Status, Tasks, Tools, and Advanced. Above these tabs there is a traditional File Menu. So overall, the interface is user friendly and easy to navigate.

As mentioned above, Norton Ghost is a data backup and recovery tool. The application can back up your system files, your documents, your photos, your music, or any other data you specify – it can do this automatically, based on the schedule you put in place, or on-demand, when you launch the backup process yourself. The data can be backed up on an external drive, a network drive, a DVD, and more. Should a data loss accident occur, Norton Ghost can recover your data – it can recover your entire system and it can recover your important files. File compression and password-encryption ensure fast, efficient, secure backups.

Norton Ghost is not free, it is only free to try for an evaluation period of 30 days.

Norton Ghost provides a handy means of backing up important data and recovering it in case of a data loss accident.