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I'm also not a Ghost fan.

You're one of the lucky ones Jackie. Here's another user's comments regarding Norton Ghost 10:

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However, when I try to backup using Norton Ghost, , it does not recognize the internal drive, only the external drive. It is as if the internal c:\ drive does not exist. However, if I turn off the external drive, then the Norton Ghost program does recognize the internal drive. I have played with the jumper settings, bios, and the driver, but nothing seems to work.

...and another (Norton Ghost 14):

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I am trying to use Norton Ghost 14.0 to backup my C: drive onto a Seagate FreeAgent 500GB external drive.  I get an error message during the create backup recovery point of "No recognizable NTFS file system".  Also, I get an error message of e0bb01a3runningjob

...and another...

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If you get a new machine with a SATA drive do not under any circumstances install and run Norton Ghost. Ghost will lock the machine up AFTER it has set itself up as the C:\ drive. You cannot boot back into Windows. You'll get the instruction to run ghreboot.exe to break out of the Ghost virtual drive but you can't because of the drive incompatibility. You can't run it from the CD as that doesn't get found. The only way round it is to boot from a bootable floppy with ghreboot downloaded from the Norton web site BUT....... If you have a nice shiny new machine with a SATA drive....... pretty good chance you have no floppy drive. I was lucky as my CD is removable and my partner happened to have a compatible floppy drive, otherwise I'd have been  royally screwed. There is some info stating that you should upgrade to the latest version of Ghost but when I tried it told me that I had the latest version. Don't risk it.

I could go on, but you get the picture. My point, you can always find horror stories about Norton Ghost (all versions) and you don't have to look very far. It really all depends on your system configuration. But, all it has to do is fail once leaving the user without years of accumulated data. It's enough to make anybody squeamish about depending on such an apparently unstable product. I wish you continued success.