Crappy News

It appears that the Symantec Coorporation, our wonderful Nortons product line that includes Nortons Ghost 2003[which for cloning drives with the NTFS file system is hit or miss and usually is miss], and Nortons Anti-Virus 2004[which they are loading down with extra crap trying to access the internet all the time and activation features], (why can't they just leave a good product alone?).

Is now the new owner of Partition Magic, IMO that sucks!






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I heard they bought PowerQuest, maker of Drive Image, far superior to Ghost! Ugh!

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I had 2 brand new Maxtor identical drives when I built the new XP 3200+ computer and I installed XP Pro onto the first primary drive and wanted to make a duplicate onto the back-up secondary drive. Ghost did not allow me to either partition for the max size of the drive and after I finally accepted that problem and performed the Ghost operations and later disconnected the primary and set the jumper on the slave drive to primary the computer system said the OS was present but none bootable.

I simply gave up the ghost on doing it a total frustrating time with ghost and I do know exactly how to use it as I have done more then a few computers with ghost backing up drives. it simply did not want to make a fully operational bootable backup.

Barton 3200+ 400MHz
A7N8X Deluxe
Air Cooled 45C
2x512 Corsair DDR 400 PC3200
GeForce FX5900
Two Maxtor 40Gig 8MB cach 7200rpm
SONY RW 52x/24x/52x
SONY DVD 16x/40x

I remember when Creative bought Aureal simply so they could seal the technology. Basically, Aureal had very little money and a far superior product. Creative filed frivolous lawsuits against them a couple times and lost, but Aureal went broke paying their defense lawyers. Before Aureal could file any suit for damages (due to frivolous suit), their banks closed in, and Aureal went bankrupt.

Guillemot tried to buy Aureal out of bankruptcy, but Creative had a standing offer: Whatever Guillemot could pay, they would offer $100,000 more. That was because Creative wanted to prevent Guillemot from gaining access to this superior technology.

So did Creative ever use any of that tech? No. In the end, all Creative did was harm the consumer.

I have a feeling that's what's going to happen with all the nice software Norton bought.

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I tried the repair option for XP Pro and both hard drive's are identical 40 Gig Maxtor's same 8MB cache.

It really pissed me off because I know it should work. System was built with both drives installed and correctly jumperd before it was ever booted the first time.

Never had a problem with this one System accept for Ghost, the wife's XP 2800+ box ghosted perfectly but she has XP home not pro.

There is many benefits I think for home users to stick to XP home and not Pro. Aside from all the extra networking options in XP Pro that they do not need.

There is one very small detail that keeps nagging me about the A7N8X Deluxe ver2.0 motherboard I have in the 3200+ box that keeps me thinking about it.

The board has an Nvidia LAN RJ45 and a 3COM RJ45 connectors set-up.

XP cannot verify ownership to Microsoft at install because the RJ45's need drivers loaded later at the desktop they will not allow any internet traffic even secure through XP at install.

I have a nagging feeling that during the Ghost process that the Ghosted copy loses either the drivers for the built in Networking or gets confused as to witch connection is active 3Com or Nvidia RJ45's.

Since I cannot get the ghost copy to safe mode I cannot verify this data loss. Safe mode with networking does not work either.

Might not be Ghost but the RJ45's failing the ghost process, Stranger things but this my hunch.

Barton 3200+ 400MHz
A7N8X Deluxe
Air Cooled 45C
2x512 Corsair DDR 400 PC3200
GeForce FX5900
Two Maxtor 40Gig 8MB cach 7200rpm
SONY RW 52x/24x/52x
SONY DVD 16x/40x

I seriously doubt that, I have a completely different setup than you, and I haven't with 2 different M/Bs made a successful working backup clone with Ghost 2003 yet, and the very reason I purchased Ghost 2003 was because it was supposed to be able to clone WinXP to a backup HDD, something I'd done for years with Win98SE and Ghost 2001. Nortons Ghost 2003 is just flat out sh1t software, it was a rip off period. Thats why I made this post, I believe they're going to screw up Partition Magic, an excellent piece of software but it won't be that way when Nortons gets through with it.




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