Norton GoBack

[Please reply to news group.]

I don't know if anyone knows anything about Norton GoBack, but has
anyone had any bad experiences with any version of GoBack? I am
considering installing the version of Norton GoBack 3 Personal Edition
that came with Norton SystemWorks 2004. Thanks in advance.

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

I put it on my son's computer. Much more reliable that System Restore. But,
it does hit the system pretty hard resource wise. If you can live with the
slow down - go for it. If you're a gamer - forget it!

 

[Annie E.]

Hi:
I had 'bad experience' in regard to 'GoBack' that came
with 'SystemWorks 2003.' In my experience, after
installation, my computer manufactured by hp literally
stopped working,.... even didn't open Window after that.

After this terrible experience, I am VERY CAUTIOUS not to
install this verstion, even though the 2004 SystemWorks I
installed already, for this there is NO problem.
Then, if your machine manufactured by hp, you need to be
EXTRA cautious what/which program you would install.
In my case, there are some nasty conflict between XP and
HP tools.
This is my experience in regard to 'Bad Experience'
on 'GoBack' that came with SystemWorks.
BTW, I rescued the XP through here, NG and other useful
web sites, including Hp itself.
Annie E.

 

[Shelly F]

I think that it is an A-1 program, but I installed the stand alone
version and not thru Norton Works. I have used it for years, always
successful. It has the capability to restore the computer after a
virus, also. And, the latest version allows one to restore personal
files after a GoBack session.
Power Quest's Drive Image does not play well with GoBack.
The installer has the option of choosing how much hard drive to
allocate to the program.

I put it on my son's computer. Much more reliable that System Restore. But,
it does hit the system pretty hard resource wise. If you can live with the
slow down - go for it. If you're a gamer - forget it!

Anti-Spam: Change shellyfnospam to shellyf to respond. Thanx, y'all have a nice day!
Retired to Cyberspace from Green Valley, AZ.

 

[Roger Bryant]

Thus it was spoken by the voices in Please reply to news group.'s head

I don't know if anyone knows anything about Norton GoBack, but has
anyone had any bad experiences with any version of GoBack? I am
considering installing the version of Norton GoBack 3 Personal Edition
that came with Norton SystemWorks 2004. Thanks in advance.

I used GoBack for about 2 years with ME and XP. With ME, it saved my
bacon numerous times, and so I got the stand alone verison when I got
XP. I used for about a year thereafter, but then I realized that XP was
a very stable platform compared to ME, and it would perform much quicker
without it. SO, I'm officially GoBack free. GoBack is a high quality
application. One that I would highly reccommend if you're not really
computer literate and you want an extral layer of recovery. Otherwise,
it's not really neccassary. If you need GoBack, go ahead and install it.

 

[xfile]

I generally don't install 3rd-party applications that will "work with" or
"interfere" with OS on the system level and Go Back is one of them. There
are compatibility and resources issues involved and it really depends on
your luck.

I use NIS 2004 but the anti-spam is not well working with Outlook 2003, so I
had to disable it. I would suggest regular backup is the best practice.

 

[Darrell]

I've used GoBack for years and love it. You must understand it, however.
It is a very jealous program. It doesn't like other hard drive controlling
programs. Example. Years ago I got Partition Magic to break my hard drive
into partitions. My computer PUKED! Had to reformat etc. Later I found I
should have temporarily deactivated GoBack while rep-partitioning my hard
drive and then reactivate it when finished. If you want to boot from a
floppy you have to hit the space bar when the initial GoBack bootup window
shows, then choose to boot from a floppy, insert the floppy, and choose to
reboot.

But if you understand these limitations it is a great product. Whenever I
do an update or load any new program I write down the date/time so that,
later, if something goes wrong, I know exactly what date/time to return my
computer to. It's a wonderful program.

I see no slowdown because of GoBack. My bootup takes exactly one minute.

Yesterday I got Drive Image 7 and it seems to work just fine with GoBack. I
have a 40 GB external USB 2.0 hard drive that I used DI 7 to make an image
of my C: drive and it only took 30 minutes to image 26 GB of data.

If I ever become space limited on my C: drive and find that DI 7 is good
enough. I might consider taking GoBack off to reclaim the space used for
its history. The nice thing about DI 7 is that, using my external hard
drive, none of my basic hard drive (except for the DI 7 program) is used.

 

[Newbie]

I hate it...it's been nothing but trouble...for me.
Haven't tried it on XP, as I just installed XP.
But tried it on w2k pro and it messedup everything.
when I tried to get tech help for it, at it's symantec site
and also it's roxio site...everyone kept giving me the cold
shoulder. I installed it from systemworks pro 2002
and it's standalone counterpart. It stinks. I have found out one thing, it
was originally created to work with ME...
and no other OS. On ME it works fine.

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

That's what happens when you use an incompatible product with Windows XP.
You're NOT using version 3 with the update! You should be.

 

[BRH]

I've used various versions of Goback with numerous versions of Windows and
have never had a problem. I am a gamer, and there really is no system
slowdown when you use Goback. It has saved my bacon countless times.

That said, you should be aware that the version which comes with System
Works is stripped down. I bought System Works 2003 (After rebate it was
free) for the sole purpose of upgrading my Goback to Version 3 after
installing XP. This version of Goback only gives you a very limited
number of points to "Go Back" to. I ended up purchasing/installing the
full retail version instead, and it's been great.

As another poster has said though, you MUST disable Goback when using any
disk utility -- such as Partition Magic, Drive Image, etc. Even when you
defrag, you should probably disable Goback as well, since the Defrag will
cause you to lose your Goback history file anyway.

I consider myself to be an experienced computer user and I would say that
my purchase of Goback for Win98 years ago was the single best utility
software purchase that I've made. And subsequent versions (for
compatibility with later OS's) have been just as good as the original.

Highly recommended.

 

[Alan P. Biddle]

I have used the upgraded version for two years, and have never had a
problem. The personal edition is just an interface crippled version
of that. It has bailed me out of several messes I have created, in
fact. About the only "problem," aside from the performance hit that
others have mentioned, is that if you do a defrag it will usually just
give up due to "massive disk operations." All that means is that you
will lose the ability to go back to before the defrag. NSW 2004 has a
lot of reported problems, so you might want to wait a bit. I have NSW
2002, and have never had a problem.

Alan

 

[Mort]

I have used the upgraded version for two years, and have never had a
problem. The personal edition is just an interface crippled version
of that. It has bailed me out of several messes I have created, in
fact. About the only "problem," aside from the performance hit that
others have mentioned, is that if you do a defrag it will usually just
give up due to "massive disk operations." All that means is that you
will lose the ability to go back to before the defrag. NSW 2004 has a
lot of reported problems, so you might want to wait a bit. I have NSW
2002, and have never had a problem.

Alan

Ditto!