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antoniodaman10
Posts: 2
Registered: ‎05-22-2012

Norton Ghost 15

I am running Windows 7 in bootcamp on a macbook pro.  I was wondering if Ghost 15 would work?  I have a friend that says it works fine but I've asked Norton and they say it wont work with bootcamp, so I am a bit confused.  I am looking for a program that will make system images of my windows 7 hard drive incase it crashes or something.  I thought Norton Ghost would be perfect but now I don't know if it will work or not, very confused.

 

Thanks,

 

Tony

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redk9258
Posts: 2,337
Registered: ‎02-22-2010

Re: Norton Ghost 15

Download the trial and give it a whirl.

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philipm785
Posts: 79
Registered: ‎04-23-2010

Re: Norton Ghost 15

Will Macs with Boot Camp boot a DOS-based CD? If not, that might be where you run into issues since while Ghost should run OK within a booted Windows installation, you will not be able to recover the system drive unless you can boot from the recovery CD.

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DaveH
Posts: 4,685
Registered: ‎01-06-2010

Re: Norton Ghost 15

It's not a DOS based CD, it's windows based.

It would have to support booting to a CD, how else would you install windows into it?

 

Dave

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antoniodaman10
Posts: 2
Registered: ‎05-22-2012

Re: Norton Ghost 15

Yes, I can boot from a CD.  I installed Windows 7 this way.  

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DaveH
Posts: 4,685
Registered: ‎01-06-2010

Re: Norton Ghost 15

Here is the trial if you want to try it.

http://www.norton.com/ng15

 

Here is the Ghost recovery disk

https://www-secure.symantec.com/norton-support/jsp/help-solutions.jsp?docid=20091016094409EN&lg=engl...

 

You should burn that to a CD and boot to it and make sure you can access the windows partition.

Sadly, Ghost doesn't support HFS+ partitions, only EXT2 and 3 for Non-Windows file formats.

 

Dave