Norton ghost

[jeofrey10100900]

i haven't been using norton ghost in a while and my question is that is does the old norton ghost utility work on a window xp pro?

[ktkendall]

I think you need at least NG 2003

[rcvalencia9]

I agree with ktkendall. I have 2003 and it works in XP. But it will also reboot your PC in DOS to create an image/clone your HDD so its just the same with older versions but it will have USB drivers for your USB mouse and external HDD.

[ktkendall]

I also have NG 2001 and I know it does not work at all for XP..

[jeofrey10100900]

Thanks for your help. i haven't been using norton ghost in a while since i had win98.

[ktkendall]

Well thats kind of what happened to me, I bought retail version 2001, and used to keep my Win98, and WinME PC's backep up to a spare harddrive that way, and when XP came along I gave it a go and it would not clone the harddrive, which had me baffled since it says it supports NTFS, which I did convert to when I went to XP, and finally I found on symantec support site that I needed a newer version of NG. It must just be symantec's way of making you upgrade NG if you upgrade your OS, cause what is different about NTFS from Win/NT/2k to XP. Probably nothing just that symantec must have coded in software to check the OS first, cause I was getting error messages that seemed to say it did not recognize the file system, or maybe there is a bit of a difference in XP's NTFS over previous OS's that use NTFS. I don't know but I do know that now I have 2003 version of NG and it just works, except now I've rebuilt my PC and reloaded XP clean and keep getting an unexpected end of file error and I have not been able to do a successful clone anymore. I've tried chkdsk, and defragging and cleaning up old files everything, but to no avail....