Similar to Drive Image, the user at Norton Ghost meets all Windows settings. Afterwards, the program will boot into the DOS mode and do the work. The difference to Drive Image is that Ghost does its tasks only in DOS mode, whereas Drive Image mostly works on Windows.
The facade has not succeeded in all points. Although there is a wizard, which guides the user through the most important settings. But he is left alone in detail work. Advanced settings appear in a dialog box. Here you can find a mass of map reiniters for different settings. The assistant is silent. Some functions of the program, such as splitting the images into small snaps, can only be accessed using command-line options.
The Symantec software is the only program in the test with which we could not create an image under the test configuration. The reason is the virtual drive that the tool creates itself.
According to the will of the ghost programmers, this drive must be a primary partition. On our test platform, however, all four primary partitions were already assigned (see test procedure, page 88). The program issued an error message. Only after we had deleted the second Windows XP partition, we were able to start the test with three primary partitions.
We carried out the copying test with the exactly same first XP partition (NTFS), which contained only slightly more data than the second. The measured values are thus comparable. Ghost achieved similar levels in compression and speed with Drive Image and landed in second place.
The same is true for the network configuration as for all programs that are operating in DOS mode. Advanced knowledge is required. Properly arranged, Ghost stores files on a network server. The program had great problems with our burners. Both the Acer and AOpen devices failed writing so we had to abort the test. If the burner is supported by Ghost, the program can even burn bootable CDs according to the manufacturer. Copying the disk worked well.
Ghost shines mainly through its many features, the good compression and its fast working. Due to its DOS-Erblast and the cumbersome handling, it can not claim a first place.
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