I still use it today because the read write speed is the fastest possible given that it does not read/write the blank space (I turn off compression to make it faster yet). After searching the to ends of the internet in 2008 I found linux boot disks with Partimage, and found it to be the fastest and easiest way to back up a partition. Later I started fixing my friends computers and found it ridiculous that I had to buy a license for everyone's individual computer if I wanted to make a backup for them. It was well worth the money for one computer (back when a person could only afford to own a single computer). It made reloading Windows, drivers, games ect very quick and painless. I first discovered Norton Ghost back in 1999, and it was a life saver at the time given how often Windows 98 gave me the old blue screen of death when I installed new software. The only good thing is that our customers are so tech illiterate and dependent on this awful software that we are able to charge absurd rates for our services. Serial ports are still common and not everyone is comfortable with new technologies like DHCP because “it’s just another thing that can break.” The biggest thing keeping us attached to it is that the primary POS software we use is dependent on so many settings stored in various locations (the registry, config files and databases) that it all but necessities thick images. We operate in the point of sale space and legacy technology never dies here. My main objection is that ghost is a thick imaging solution which is the antithesis of the direction Microsoft has been moving for more than a decade. We also started mapping drives in windows PE and imaging 'locally' because the legacy protocols used to image work poorly at scale. We have nursed it along by moving it to newer versions of Windows PE so that it we can use modern drivers. My company uses ghost extensively and I hate it. I feel a little weird replying to this post because I feel like you may be a newish hire at my company.

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