Norton Ghost???

I have noticed that Norton Ghost continues to make backups of my data on the d:drive partioned space....I have only had my computer for about two weeks now, and out of the 30 or so GB of d: drive that there is.......I only have 9 GB left! Is this "free 90 day trial" of Norton Ghost worth anything at all? Should I just get rid of it? I know I know, I should have re-formatted a long time ago, but now that I am in school, I have installed so many programs from text books and such, that I am quite happy with the way it is running so far....except for the clicking of the hard drive, but oh well.

Any suggestions would be appreciated,

Thanks!

Paul

Inspiron 640m, T2500, 2.0GHZ, 120GB HD, 1GB RAM, 3 YEAR CC WARRANTY

 

=/ I'm not familiar with ghost, but I strongly advise that you take an afternoon and back up all of your data and just reformat, you will notice a much faster system. If you don't want to reformat I'd suggest giving symmantec a call/email, maybe they can clear it up. I'm surprised that it's not overwriting the previous backups with the newer ones. Maybe there is a setting somewhere that you can change? If not, maybe make an image onto several cds or a dvd and then uninstall the program?

Cheers.

 

I've had good experience with NG. You just have to tell it what to do - don't let it decide what to do, how, and when. I've copied the entire drive (40G) to an external drive via USB. My version came withe Norton Sys Works pro 2003 and it has been updated by their live update.
I'm not familiar with the upgraded versions, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't change it to do things on its own.

 

You can manually delete the backups if you want....it will just make a new one. Or you can open norton and shut off the feature and back it up manually. Either way....it's a waste of space. My suggestion is back a backup of the stock system after you load all the crap you want on it. and then make another one in adition to that (keeping only 2 max) that is more up to date. You can often fix problems etc. It's a nice piece of software, however it's too greedy if you don't watch it.

Like the other guy said....phone Dell....or dig into the program yourself. it's not rocket science. (I don't mean that condescending like)

 

Thanks a lot for all you input everyone, I'll take some of those steps...I just really do not feel like re-formatting, although I can understand the benefits, it troubles me to think that if something went wrong, that I would be stuck here away at school without a computer, when everything before the re-format was working fine anyway. I find the speed, startup, shutdown, and everything about this computer is fine the way it is.

Thanks again,

Paul