: While it supports BitLocker-encrypted volumes, it may struggle with modern hardware standards like UEFI/GPT boot drives, which were less common during its peak.
Symantec sold Ghost to a company called (now Gen Digital). They killed the product line in 2013, replacing it with "Norton Backup" – a cloud-first, hand-holding service that doesn't let you clone a dying hard drive at 3 AM using a USB-to-SATA adapter.
: Supports automatic incremental or differential backups based on specific events or schedules. Status & Compatibility norton ghost 15
Yet, fifteen years after its release (and a decade since Symantec pulled the plug), Norton Ghost 15 refuses to die. It lurks in the toolkits of veteran IT administrators, forensic analysts, and paranoid PC enthusiasts. Why? Because when every other backup solution fails, the Ghost walks again.
For its time
: Version 15 introduced support for high-capacity Blu-ray discs, allowing users to store large backups on a single piece of media.
: Users can convert physical recovery points into virtual disk formats like VHD or VMDK, compatible with VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V. : While it supports BitLocker-encrypted volumes, it may
One feature that modern "simple" backup tools have abandoned is . Ghost 15 could clone your C: drive while you were still using the computer. It used Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to take a "photograph" of the disk in milliseconds.