Hi, I enjoyed your article, like many on this subject. Thanks. Sadly, no-one including Symantec (I have a proper version of Ghost 12) can tell me how to take a one shot image of my system as a sigle file which will boot and restore the ENTIRE computer in one unmanned pass. I used to have a disk which restored my old ME computer set-up in this way, but don't know how this was prepared. (It displayed "Norton Ghost" picture while it was doing its magic - hence my pointless purchase). Yep the whole computer from a boot CD, after a single key press to "make sure" i wanted to restore. Any suggestions? I don't want ANY other feature than this. I'd love to hear your answer ...

Peter Norton has failed us yet again. Ghost 14 will not solve your problems. Its pure crap. There is a known issue with it not being able to produce readable .v2i files. People are complaining about it. It's happen to me too. Very unreliable. Stick to the Corporate ghost version (produces .GHO files) that was written by Ghost Soft, it still works and it now supports SATA drives.

After upgrading 2 Win2k systems running Ghost 9 to XP and Ghost 12, neither XP system will backup to a Network Attached Storage (NAS) box that was happily backing up 4 win2k systems (now 2) with good old Ghost 9. Now the Symantec/Norton site states that backup to a NAS box is a new feature of Ghost 14! The decision now is do I spend additional money upgrading to Ghost 14 or modify XP to be compatible with Ghost 9? I haven't decided which direction yet.

I just threw 70.00 us in the trash after trying to get this piece of #$%^&*& to do what it was advertised to do.. it never completely worked... will never buy a norton product again