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11/24/2005: "Norton Ghost 9.0 is amazing."

About a year ago I bought Norton Ghost 9.0. to backup my home computer. One of my hard-drives was a 5 year old 40GB Western Digital and I knew its days were counted. A couple of days ago the computer could not boot and the hard-drive was making clipping noise. Without waisting time, I went a nearby electronics store and bought Samsung 160 GB hard-drive and replaced the old one. I then inserted Norton Ghost 9.0 recovery CD (comes with the software) located the latest backup image and in about 30 minutes my computer was up and running on a new hard-drive.
Surprisingly, the only program that would not work after recovery was Norton Ghost 9.0. It was related to having a large hard-drive with large LBA support disabled in the registry.
Unfortunately, time again, Symantec's web site was poorly organized. It took me a about an hour to locate Symantec's tech support email. By that time, I had already enabled large LBA support in the registry and Ghost 9.0 was up and running.