1] Is Ghost suitable for a netbook running windows 7 starter edition?
2] Also has norton ghost got a 3 pc's edition yet, asked a long time ago and was told no. just not practical to buy 3 times, where as paying a little of the odds and getting 3 licences like NIS would be great and a good selling point I would have thought.
>>> 1] Is Ghost suitable for a netbook running windows 7 starter edition?
I don't see why it wouldn't work. You could try it first with the trial version. Since a netbook doesn't have a CD-DVD drive, you should make a Ghost SRD on a UFD (USB Flash Drive) and make sure you can boot from it and see the backup and destination drives. HERE is an easy way to do it.
>>> 2] Also has norton ghost got a 3 pc's edition yet, asked a long time ago and was told no. just not practical to buy 3 times, where as paying a little of the odds and getting 3 licences like NIS would be great and a good selling point I would have thought.
I don't think Ghost is offered licensed for 3 PCs. I have see it advertised like that but I'm sure it was a mistake.
redk9528
thank you for the reply was going to get an external dvd rw drive to run ghost & backup.
the computer shops here in england no longer seem to offer ghost, I hope some from norton might read this post and think about a 3 licence edition like nis.
Are you planning on backing up to a DVD or USB hard drive? If you are planning on using DVDs, I cannot discourage this enough. The CD\DVD driver Ghost uses is supplied by GEAR. I have never had any luck getting it to work with backups or making the Custom Recovery Disk (well once it did). I strongly recommend an External HDD. You can even make it bootable with the Ghost Recovery Environment. To do this, format the drive from within Windows 7's Disk Management and (important) make it active. Use 7-Zip or similar to extract the contents of the Recovery Disc ISO image to the USB HDD. Alternately you can copy the contents of the Ghost CD to the USB HDD. At bootup you should be able to hit a key (I think my HP is F2) to get a menu of what disk you want to boot from.
the computer shops here in england no longer seem to offer ghost, I hope some from norton might read this post and think about a 3 licence edition like nis.
You could try here www.cpc.co.uk for a copy of Ghost I get a lot of my stuff from this site, recently I bought a nice little portable DVD burner (Samsung) for £25.00 but I would never use it for backing up onto DVD disks, best to invest in a good external drive.
Deric
thank you both for the advice