#NORTON GHOST 15 REVIEW CNET SOFTWARE#

April 2001: Adaptec creates spin-off company, Roxio, Inc., which retains the GoBack product.March 2000: Adaptec, Inc., acquires Wild File for approximately $29 million.A patent for the technology was issued in January 2000.

#NORTON GHOST 15 REVIEW CNET SOFTWARE#

The software was shown at COMDEX in November 1998 and released in December 1998.

GoBack was designed by Wild File, Inc., a company located in Plymouth, Minnesota.

As per Symantec, Norton GoBack 4.0 is not compatible with Windows Vista.

Norton GoBack 4.0 does not support hard drive partitions of 1 TB or higher.

CNET gave Norton GoBack 4.0 an editors' rating of 3.5 out of five stars, but the average user rating was only 1.5 stars.

Several users at CNET Reviews have reported data loss after installing this product.

GoBack is also incompatible with products such as Drive Vaccine PC Restore and RollBack Rx - as these products require access to the MBR (Master Boot Record). Another example of an incompatible program is the Windows version of Acronis Image For Windows. Such low level utilities which do not first check for the presence of GoBack can (in combination with GoBack) cause data to become corrupted.

It may also be necessary to disable GoBack prior to using certain low level disk utilities, such as formatting software. It is possible to retain dual-boot compatibility, but can involve saving the partition table before enabling GoBack, and after enabling GoBack, re-writing the partition table back to the disk (after booting from a different device, such as a Live CD). Incompatible productsДue to the changes made to the partition table, this can cause problems when dual booting other operating systems on the same hard disk. GoBack is compatible with hardware RAID drives. This allows a hard drive to be reverted even in the event that the Operating System is unable to boot, while also protecting the filesystem from alteration so that the revert information remains correct. GoBack replaces the Master Boot Record, and also replaces the partition table with a single partition.

Norton ghost 15 review cnet