norton ghost question?

Question

i have a copy of norton ghost v5.1,its quite a old copy but unused and come with a aopen dvd-rw i was given
i have looked at the requirements and it says you need dos 5.0 or later and 8mb(16mb for ntfs)(i have 1.5gb ram) and a 80386sx processor(i have a amd athlon 3200+)
so my question is ,can i use it on my xp home os,or is it just too dam old for xp
cheers guys

Answer 1

You've got to ask yourself if its worth all the hassle. Ok you take a mirror image backup with Norton Ghost of your pc in its current state... operating system and files..... so if anything goes wrong with pc you can put it back to the clean working state.

I tried Norton Ghost and it was a right pain tbh. Was seeking something like 20 CDs to write the full image of my harddrive. Less problem if you have DVDs i suppose. I remember installing older version of Norton Ghost myself.. trying it.. and then because of it (wasn't user friendly to me), losing everything on my pc and having to install O/S again.

However I just back up my important programs/files to CD these days, marked with date with cd pen on front, and file them in a big cd folder bag. Its not much of a hassle if something goes critically wrong to do a fresh O/S intall.

GL though.

Answer 2

Norton Ghost isn't backup application, yet confusing stress imaging application. you should use Norton Ghost to create an photo, a image, of your confusing stress. you are able to write this photo to an exterior confusing stress as an party, burn it on CD or DVD, et cetera. in case your pc could have any subject matters, you are able to restore the photo that you made. Restoring the photo will erase the completed confusing stress and it is going to go back your pc to the precise state it became in once you created the photo. as an party, you create an photo utilizing Norton Ghost now and one month later you make certain to fix your pc. each document that you kept in this month time will be lost once you restore the photo, each replace or application that you've put in in this month time will be lengthy gone again. you've an identical clean equipment as you had once you created the photo one month in the past.

Answer 3

every time I get a new laptop/tablet I get a copy of Norton Ghost in its various guises thrown in and I never use it; I love Acronis True Image because it is so easy to use and the recovery cd loads quickly into memory if your os won't boot; Paragon Drive Backup is buggy but ok.

Answer 4

Yea no problem!