Bought Ghost 10 last week. Went the rebate route, got a package of Ghost and AV for $80 with $80 in rebates. Now I have to hope they honor them. I'll probably end up finding some sucker to give the AV to.

After I finally got all the bugs out of the system I was able to make Ghost 10 work. Had some error codes, and their knowledge base was not helpful. Some of the error codes weren't listed, others didn't go into much detail. I had put in a new Seagate drive for backups, couldn't get Ghost to create a backup point without bombing until I formatted using the dos format function. Something about the Seagate utility that it didn't like. My mother drive was then a problem. Ended up running chkdsk to repair what showed as a minor error, which wasn't showing any problems in Windows. Still had problems, and had to go through the advanced options to click a box to ignore bad sectors during copy. I would have assumed that was a default setting, but it's not.

Another issue was the speed. It took 45 minutes to run the backup, 14 GB of data.

In my opinion, the program is too finicky to recommend, especially for a novice user. I have no experience with the earlier versions, so I can't compare against them.

I've heard the same thing about Ghost since Symantec (Norton) bought them out. I have not used Ghost since around version 8 (couple years :rolleyes: ).

We use something called Paragon Drive Backup at work for imaging and pushing an image to renew our classroom machines. It seems OK. Our version is a couple years old and at first got a bit finicky with XP SP2. Not sure what I'm going to try next myself.

Thanks for the words on Ghost.

I've heard the same about Ghost 10. I ahve never had such problems with Ghost 2003, so this is usually what I recommend people to get. have a copy of it on my computer, I try to keep several copies laying around, it comes in handy a lot.

You will never be able to Ghost a drive that has errors and it's always best to run a disk check - and if you're ghosting a drive that is dying, then you surely want to heck that box off.

Average rate of speed for a normal drive is usually about 1-2 mins per gigabyte....sometimes longer. It takes me about 22 hours to do my entire 400GB music drive.