This board is dedicated to discussions about Norton Ghost 2003, Ghost v8.x & Ghost Solution Suite (GSS v1.0 = Ghost v8.2, GSS v1.1 = Ghost v8.3, GSS v2.0 = Ghost v11.0, GSS 2.5 = Ghost 11.5.0, GSS 2.5.1 = Ghost 11.5.1.), plus all previous versions, which are all based on the 'classic' DOS version of Ghost (originally. Ghost is a disk cloning and backup tool originally developed by Murray Haszard in 1995 for Binary Research. The technology was acquired in 1998 by Symantec. The backup and recovery functionality has been replaced by Symantec System Recovery (SSR), although the Ghost imaging technology is still actively.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] Binary Research developed Ghost in, New Zealand. After the Symantec acquisition, a few functions (such as translation into other languages) were moved elsewhere, but the main development remained in Auckland until October 2009 at which time much was moved to India. [ ] Technologies developed by 20/20 Software were integrated into Ghost after their acquisition by Symantec in April 2000. PowerQuest [ ] At the end of 2003, Symantec acquired its largest competitor in the disk-cloning field, [ ]. On August 2, 2004, Norton Ghost 9. New Blue Color Fast Keygen Download more. 0 was released as a new consumer version of Ghost, which is based on PowerQuest′s version 7, and provides Live imaging of a Windows system.

Ghost 9 continues to leverage the PowerQuest file format, meaning it is not backward compatible with previous versions of Ghost. However, a version of Ghost 8.0 is included on the Ghost 9 recovery disk to support existing Ghost customers.

Ghost 3.1 [ ] The first versions of Ghost supports only the cloning of entire disks. However, version 3.1, released in 1997 supports cloning individual.

Ghost could clone a disk or partition to another disk or partition or to an image file. Ghost allows for writing a clone or image to a second disk in the same machine, another machine linked by a parallel or network cable, a network drive, or to a tape drive. Ghost 4.0 and 4.1 [ ] Version 4.0 of Ghost added technology, following the lead of a competitor,. Multicasting supports sending a single image simultaneously to other machines without putting greater stress on the network than by sending an image to a single machine. This version also introduced Ghost Explorer, a program which supports browsing the contents of an image file and extract individual files from it.