Next time I will check and be certain that whatever software I choose for copying a hard drive it will handle the type of drive I am using. I was completely taken by surprise by the Ghost 15 screw-up.

But the entire experience was very frustrating because, although I did not specifically verify that the latest version of Ghost would handle SATA drives, in my experience Norton products have never let me down. The original drive was readable, so I was able to recover data file and email messages, etc. I replaced it with the copy and had the same result.I had to do a complete new install on the new drive. apparently the boot cylinder was wiped out. After copying the SATA drive, with the original drive still in place, my computer would not boot.

I have copied several drives with earlier versions of Ghost, but always on IDE drives. The copy ran for a number of hours, as expected. I installed Ghost 15.0 on the computer and proceeded to perform a disk copy. So I bought an external SATA drive enclosure for the 1TB drive. The first thing I discovered was that the new Dell slim case has room for only one drive. The internal drive was a SATA WD 320MB drive. I purchased a new SATA WD 1TB drive for my Dell desktop. Norton Ghost is a reliable, powerful and easy to use backup tool that prevents you from losing any important files in the case of a computer disaster. Backup copies can take a long time, so you should probably leave the program running in the background while doing something else – or even better, schedule backups to take place when you don't need to use the PC. When backing up the whole drive, Norton Ghost will also create a restoration point that will enable you to recover your system in case something goes horribly wrong.Īs efficient and easy to use as it is, Norton Ghost requires just one thing: patience. Norton Ghost can also create an exact copy of your hard drive (with all the existing files, programs and settings). Of course, Norton Ghost lets you change any of these settings later on in the program’s configuration menu. The backup copies can be conveniently scheduled and restored at any time, should the worst happen.

You can configure as many different backup tasks in Norton Ghost as you need, each one of them with its own settings.

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