Any word if a new version og ghost is on the table.
Any word if a new version og ghost is on the table.
How silly to let the Ghost name die!!!
I am gob smacked!!!
what will they think of next?
Deric
redk9258 wrote:How silly to let the Ghost name die!!!
Do ghosts die? 
It's good to see Symantec/Norton takes the thoughts of their loyal customers into account. I guess the almighty dollar wins over loyal customer support every time. I have used Norton products since Peter Norton started. I have stayed with them thru thick and thin - when their products sucked and caused computer crashes or computers had to be restored to factory because their software glitched - and now this.
thanks for supporting those of us that supported YOU
Just tried to install the SSR and lo and behold - it won't install on my windows 8 64 bit.
Guess that should come as no surprise
sarcasm intended
rold wrote:Just tried to install the SSR and lo and behold - it won't install on my windows 8 64 bit.
Guess that should come as no surprise
sarcasm intended
Hi,
I'm running SSR on a test W8 system and all seems well. It is doing what it is advertised to do. Did you have Ghost installed and not uninstall it?
Keep us posted
I tried installing SSR and it failed to install.
Very, very disappointed. I have used Ghost as my backup solution for many years. Left and went to Acronis for a short while and came right back.
I don't understand why they didn't keep the Ghost name because that has the name recognition.
But SSR and Ghost really have been the same product for a long time.
After a new version of SSR would come out, they would basically remove the "restore anywhere" function, change everywhere it said SSR to Ghost and then release it as Ghost.
I have no idea why they didn't do that again or just rename SSR to Ghost but it really is the same program.
Dave
I had uninstalled ghost first but still would not install. Ended up having to go thru the registry and delete ANY reference to Norton/Symantec/ghost that came up. Ghost uninstall did not take all registry entries out and evidently one of them was telling ssr that ghost was still installed.
SSR is working great now although as some have commented it should just be called ghost as it sure looks and feels like ghost
still not happy about ghost being dropped and forced to buy another product which, at this time I have not looked at the price, is probably more expensive.
rold wrote:I had uninstalled ghost first but still would not install. Ended up having to go thru the registry and delete ANY reference to Norton/Symantec/ghost that came up. Ghost uninstall did not take all registry entries out and evidently one of them was telling ssr that ghost was still installed.
SSR is working great now although as some have commented it should just be called ghost as it sure looks and feels like ghost
still not happy about ghost being dropped and forced to buy another product which, at this time I have not looked at the price, is probably more expensive.
I actually had a similar problem with windows 8 64bit.
When I started the setup nothing happened. (It's really the "browser.exe" file)
I was just testing it and had no problems with XP or windows 7 but for some odd reason I couldn't get it to start in 8.
(I can't remember the location I had the files extracted too and I'm sure thats what the problem was).
You can clearly see that it's really the contents of a CD because of the autorun.exe file.
Why they just zipped up all the folders instead of providing the ISO is beyond me.
So I burned it all to a CD and then had no problems installing it.
I then mentioned that to another Guru here but he had no problem installing it from the extracted files.
Thats why I think the location matters, for me it only installed from a CD even though I didn't have that problem in any other operating system I tested it on.
Dave
Dave - my installation went fine from the downloaded files which were saved to my desktop after i had cleaned the registry. i went into ssr - ssrx64 - install and used the setup.exe. that was the only way i could get it to install. was this the correct way to install it?? who knows at this point but it did indeed install and is working fine now.
I never installed it that way but I'm sure it's fine if it's working for you.
Just wondering how to create a recovery disc. Help says to download ISO but website says ISO is no longer available. Anyone have directions on how to create one?
rold wrote:Just wondering how to create a recovery disc. Help says to download ISO but website says ISO is no longer available. Anyone have directions on how to create one?
Hi,
When you downloaded the program was it a .ZIP file? Have you looked in the folder that was created when you extracted all the contents? Mine has both the x32 and the x64 recovery disk .ISO files included.
Keep us posted
Hi Dick - just double checked the folder and found nothing. also unzipped it again into a new folder and still no iso to create a recovery disc. Is it named something that does not stick out at me?
rick
Edit:
did find this on website - is this the correct srd for ssr2013?
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH201118
You'll notice the english recovery disk is 702Mb. Once downloaded, there will be 2 ZIP files therein - 1 for 32-bit and the other is 64-bit. Once each is unzipped, the ISO file will be inside each folder. If the folders are blank, that likely means you attempted to unzip the file before it was completely downloaded, the files are hidden, or you cannot see the .ZIP extension of the file.
