GHOST (an acronym for general hardware-oriented system transfer ), now called Symantec ™ GHOST Solution Suite ( GSS ) for enterprise, is a disk cloning and backup tool originally developed by Murray Haszard in 1995 for Binary Research . The technology was bought in 1998 by Symantec .
61-406: The backup and recovery feature was replaced by Symantec System Recovery (SSR). Broadcom bought Symantec's Enterprise Security business in 2019. GHOST is marketed as an OS (Operating System) deployment solution. Its capture and deployment environment requires booting to a Windows PE environment. This can be accomplished by creating an ISO (to burn to a DVD) or a USB bootable disk, installed to
122-674: A Windows program which supports browsing the contents of a disk image file and extracting individual files from it. Explorer was subsequently enhanced to support adding and deleting files in a FAT -formatted image, and later with EXT2 , EXT3 and NTFS file systems . Until 2007, GHOST Explorer could not edit NTFS images. GHOST Explorer could work with images from older versions but only slowly; version 4 images contain indexes to find files rapidly. Version 4.0 also moved from real-mode DOS to 286 protected mode via Pharlap Extender . The additional memory available allows GHOST to provide several levels of compression for images, and to provide
183-606: A power electronics technology provider, as part of a strategic investment agreement between the two companies. Avago Technologies announced its agreement to acquire LSI Corporation in December 2013 for $ 6.6 billion. The acquisition helped move Avago Technologies away from specialized products and towards a more mainstream industry, which included chips, especially storage for data centers. The company sold its SSD controller business to Seagate Technology in May 2014. In August 2014,
244-566: A sector-by-sector transfer. GHOST added support for NTFS later in 1996, and also provided a program, Ghostwalker, to change the Security ID (SID) that made Windows NT systems distinguishable from each other. Ghostwalker is capable of modifying the name of the Windows NT computer from its own interface. GHOST added support for the EXT2 file system in 1999 and for EXT3 subsequently. Support for EXT4
305-413: A system administrator to refresh the disk of a machine remotely. As a DOS-based program, GHOST requires machines running Windows to reboot to DOS to run it. GHOST 6.0 requires a separate DOS partition when used with the console. Released March 31, 2001, Norton GHOST version 7.0 (retail) was marketed as Norton GHOST 2002 Personal Edition. Released December 14, 2001, GHOST 7.5 creates a virtual partition,
366-511: A "LightsOut Restore" feature, which restores a system from an on-disk software recovery environment similar to Windows RE , thereby allowing recovery without a bootable CD. Upon system startup, a menu asks whether start the operating system or the LightsOut recovery environment. LightsOut restore would augment the ISO image , which comes with Ghost. The latter contains a recovery environment that can recover
427-537: A $ 5.5 billion price and was offered in cash. It was delayed for review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States . On 2 November 2017, Broadcom announced it would relocate its legal address from Singapore to Delaware, which would avoid the review. This action was linked to the parent company being renamed from Broadcom Limited to Broadcom Inc. The pre-2016-merger Broadcom, Broadcom Corporation , remains
488-549: A DOS partition which actually exists as a file within a normal Windows file system. This significantly eased systems management because the user no longer had to set up their own partition tables. GHOST 7.5 can write images to CD-R discs. Later versions can write DVDs . GHOST 8.0 can run directly from Windows. It is well-suited for placement on bootable media, such as BartPE ′s bootable CD. The corporate edition supports unicast , multicast and peer-to-peer transfers via TCP/IP . GHOST 8.0 supports NTFS file system, although NTFS
549-545: A Symantec service that monitors malware activity around the world, and performs incremental backups when a specific threat level is reached. Other features include the ability to back up to network-attached storage devices and support for NTFS partitions up to 16TB. GHOST can manage other installations of version 12.0 or later across a network. This version no longer supports opening .gho image files. It stores images in .v2i format. Incremental backup images created with Norton GHOST are saved with .iv2i filename extensions alone
610-557: A client as an automation folder or delivered by a PXE server. This provides an environment to perform offline system recovery or image creation. GHOST can mount a backup volume to recover individual files. GHOST can copy the contents of one volume to another or copy a volume's contents to a virtual disk in VMDK or VHD format. Initially, GHOST supported only the FAT file system, but could only copy (not resize) other file systems by performing
671-448: A commitment not to enter into such agreements for seven years. In 2017, Broadcom filed patent suits against smart TV manufacturers. The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled in favor of the smart TV manufacturers. In 2020, Broadcom sued Netflix over multiple patent infringements. Critics have argued that Broadcom is suing Netflix for being more successful, citing the declining number of traditional pay television subscribers due to
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#1732851230854732-485: A difficult task, where different SCSI , USB , and CD-ROM drives were involved. Mouse support was possible but often left out due to the limited space for drivers on a floppy disk. Some devices such as USB often did not work using newer features such as USB 2.0, instead only operating at 1.0 speeds and taking hours to do what should have taken only a few minutes. As widespread support for DOS went into decline, it became increasingly difficult to get hardware drivers for DOS for
793-624: A market value of $ 77 billion. Broadcom Corp. strengthened Avago Technologies' patent position significantly in sectors such as mobile, the data center, and the Internet of Things and made the company the ninth largest holder of patents among the top semiconductor vendors, according to an analysis by technology consulting firm LexInnova . According to the company's website, the transaction closed on 1 February 2016. In May 2016, Cypress Semiconductor announced that it will acquire Broadcom Corporation's full portfolio of IoT products for $ 550 million. Under
854-442: A parallel or network cable, a network drive, or to a tape drive. 3.1 uses 286 with XMS and could still run on OS/2. Version 4.0 of GHOST added multicast technology, following the lead of a competitor, ImageCast . Multicasting supports sending a single backup image simultaneously to other machines without putting greater stress on the network than by sending an image to a single machine. This version also introduced GHOST Explorer,
915-421: A result of this hostile takeover." However, critics of the move stated that the decision was motivated by competitiveness more than security concerns. Broadcom withdrew its takeover bid two days after the executive order. Observers have stated that President Trump's decision was as consistent with the balance of trade objectives as it was with security concerns. Historically a semiconductor-based-only company,
976-489: A system without a working operating system. NSR 2.0 has fewer features in comparison to Norton GHOST 12. NSR 2.0 offers one-time backups, file and folder backup, simplified schedule editor, Maxtor OneTouch integration and modifiable Symantec recovery disc. This version supports 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Vista. Version 14.0 (November 2007) uses Volume Snapshot Service (VSS) to make backups and can store backups to an FTP site. GHOST can connect to ThreatCon,
1037-470: A wholly owned subsidiary of the renamed parent Broadcom Inc. In mid-November 2017, Broadcom proposed to purchase Qualcomm for US$ 130 billion, which was rebuffed by Qualcomm's board. The proposed hostile takeover, which was later revised to $ 117 billion, was blocked by the Trump administration by an executive order that cited national security concerns. Specifically, the Committee on Foreign Investment in
1098-613: Is a programmable Ethernet switch chip that has up to 10 Tbit/s switching capacity per device. Tomahawk 3 series supports high-density, standards-based 400GbE, 200GbE, and 100GbE switching and routing for hyperscale cloud networks. Broadcom divulged that it is bringing two variants of the Tomahawk-3 to market. The first can provide up to 12.8 Tbit/s total chip bandwidth and contains 256 integrated SerDes, supporting 32 ports at 400 Gbit/s , 64 ports at 200 Gbit/s , and 128 ports at 100 Gbit/s . The second variant of
1159-468: Is an American multinational designer, developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, storage, and industrial markets. As of 2023, some 79 percent of Broadcom's revenue came from its semiconductor-based products and 21 percent from its infrastructure software products and services. Tan Hock Eng
1220-541: Is compatible with previous versions, but not with future versions. Norton Save And Restore 1.0, released in February 2006, was the renamed consumer version of Ghost. It used GHOST 10.0's engine, with the addition of features to allow backup and restoration of individual files. GHOST 12.0 (April 2007) includes Windows Vista support with an updated and more thorough user interface. It supports both full system backup and individual files or folders backup. This version provides
1281-1670: Is independent) March 28, 2022 gdisk (GPT fdisk) Roderick W. Smith Free software Yes Linux, macOS, Windows July 5, 2018 KDE Partition Manager Volker Lanz Free software Yes Linux Logical Disk Manager Microsoft Proprietary software Yes Windows NT family MiniTool Partition Wizard MiniTool Solution Freeware Yes Microsoft Windows August 15, 2023 ntfsresize Szabolcs Szakacsits Free software Yes Linux Parted Magic Parted Magic LLC Proprietary software Yes Linux Partition Commander VCOM Products Proprietary software No Windows PartitionMagic Symantec Proprietary software No Windows May 5, 2004 Hard Disk Manager(Partition Manager) Paragon Proprietary software Yes Windows March 10, 2015 Partition Master EaseUS Proprietary software Yes Windows October 14, 2021 QtParted ( GUI for GNU Parted ) Vanni Brutto Free software No Linux Ranish Partition Manager Mikhail Ranish Freeware No MS-DOS , PC DOS , DR-DOS or FreeDOS Solaris format utility Sun Microsystems Proprietary software No Solaris Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_disk_partitioning_software&oldid=1226707278 " Categories : Disk partitioning software Lists of software Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
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#17328512308541342-465: Is larger than 2 GB. (In GHOST 8.2 or earlier, such image files are automatically split into two or more segments, so that each segment has a maximum size of 2 GB.) Other new features include more comprehensive manufacturing tools, and the ability to create a "universal boot disk". GHOST Solution Suite 2.0 was released in November 2006. This version provides significant improvements in performance, as well as
1403-508: Is not accessible from a DOS program. The off-line version of Ghost, which runs from bootable media in place of the installed operating system, originally faced a number of driver support difficulties due to limitations of the increasingly obsolete 16-bit DOS environment. Driver selection and configuration within DOS was non-trivial from the beginning, and the limited space available on floppy disks made disk cloning of several different disk controllers
1464-658: Is the company's president and CEO . The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California . Avago Technologies Limited took the Broadcom part of the Broadcom Corporation name after acquiring it in January 2016. The ticker symbol AVGO which represented old Avago now represents the newly merged entity. The Broadcom Corporation ticker symbol BRCM was retired. At first the merged entity was known as Broadcom Limited , before assuming
1525-535: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission claimed that the company abused its monopoly power using restrictive contract terms and threats of retaliation against customers the company deemed "disloyal." The company faced a similar antitrust proceeding with the European Commission , which was settled after Broadcom committed to refrain from certain business practices. This included a commitment to suspend agreements containing exclusivity or quasi-exclusivity arrangements and
1586-558: The UK 's Competition and Markets Authority regulator announced it would investigate whether the Broadcom Inc. acquisition of VMware Inc. would "result in a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services". The European Commission also said it was investigating the proposed acquisition, and as a result, Broadcom and VMware extended
1647-621: The Tomahawk 5 has a maximum speed of 51.2 Tbit/s . Broadcom has expanded from its original hardware base and also offers enterprise software products. Broadcom operates its enterprise security business under the Symantec brand. It purchased the suite of enterprise security products from Symantec Corporation in 2019. After the sale, Symantec Corporation changed its name to NortonLifeLock . Broadcom also offers products for supporting BizOps, including: Partition manager From Misplaced Pages,
1708-432: The Tomahawk-3 has 160 of the 256 SerDes available and delivers 8 Tbit/s of aggregate bandwidth. Broadcom is suggesting 80 ports at 100 Gbit/s ; or 48 ports at 100 Gbit/s plus either 8 ports at 400 Gbit/s or 16 ports at 200 Gbit/s ; or 96 ports at 50 Gbit/s plus either 8 ports at 400 Gbit/s or 16 ports at 200 Gbit/s . The Tomahawk 4 reached a speed of 25.6 Tbit/s while
1769-485: The United States expressed concerns. Broadcom, then headquartered in Singapore, was considered too close to China and chipmaker Huawei . "A shift to Chinese dominance in 5G would have substantial negative national security consequences for the United States," CFIUS said. "While the United States remains dominant in the standards-setting space currently, China would likely compete robustly to fill any void left by Qualcomm as
1830-432: The ability to edit NTFS images. This version also adds support for Windows Vista , x64 versions of Windows, and GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks. However, the software does not fully support systems with Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) firmware. GHOST 11.0 supports saving and restoring from native GHOST image format (.gho, .ghs) and raw images (.img, .raw). The GHOST software for enterprise, including GHOST 11.5,
1891-425: The acquisition of CA Technologies. On 9 August 2019, news sources reported that Broadcom had decided to acquire the enterprise security business of Symantec Corporation (the consumer software portion of which is now known as Gen Digital ) for $ 10.7 billion in cash. The deal continued Broadcom's push into software critical for corporate infrastructure. And on 4 November 2019, Broadcom announced that it had completed
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1952-402: The acquisition of PowerQuest. The consumer line uses PowerQuest's V2I technology, while the enterprise line builds upon the original GHO format. GHOST 9.0 was released August 2, 2004. It represents a significant shift in the consumer product line from GHOST 2003, in several ways: Since GHOST 9 does not support the older .gho format disk images, a separate CD containing GHOST 2003 is included in
2013-445: The acquisition of the business, as well as the Symantec name and brand. In 2019, Broadcom was announced the fifth best performing stock of the 2010s, with a total return of 1,956%. On January 17, 2018, it was reported that the FTC had been investigating Broadcom for several months in regard to its anti-competitive tactics while negotiating with customers. In October 2019, Broadcom
2074-679: The company filed an initial public offering of $ 400 million. In October 2008, Avago Technologies acquired Infineon Technologies' Munich-based bulk acoustic wave business for €21.5 million. On 6 August 2009, Avago Technologies went public on NASDAQ with the ticker symbol AVGO. Avago Technologies announced its agreement to acquire CyOptics, an optical chip and component supplier, for $ 400 million in April 2013. The acquisition aimed to expand Avago Technologies' fiber optics product portfolio. In October 2013, Avago Technologies invested $ 5 million in Amantys,
2135-653: The company was the ninth-largest semiconductor company. Avago Technologies agreed to sell LSI's Axxia Networking business to Intel for $ 650 million. The company also agreed to buy PLX Technology , an integrated circuits designer, for $ 309 million. In February 2015, it was announced that Avago Technologies Limited had reached an agreement to acquire Emulex Corporation for $ 8 per share in cash. On 28 May 2015, Avago announced that it would buy Broadcom Corporation for $ 37 billion ($ 17 billion cash and $ 20 billion in shares). The combined company, which would be named Broadcom Ltd., would have annual revenue of $ 15 billion and
2196-433: The console but has a Windows front-end to script GHOST operations and create a bootable GHOST diskette . The machine still needs to reboot to the virtual partition, but the user does not need to interact with DOS. Symantec deprecated LiveUpdate support for Norton GHOST 2003 in early 2006. At the end of 2003, Symantec acquired its largest competitor in the disk-cloning field, PowerQuest . On August 2, 2004, Norton GHOST 9.0
2257-1289: The data center (mainframes), networking, software, broadband, wireless, and storage and industrial markets. Common applications for its products include: data center networking, home connectivity, broadband access, telecommunications equipment, smartphones, base stations, data center servers and storage, factory automation, power generation and alternative energy systems, displays, and mainframe operations and management, and application software development. Broadcom's core technologies and franchise products include networking devices, optical technologies, network interface controllers and data storage. Vendors have included Broadcom NICs in their products. For example, select Dell PowerEdge blade servers have Broadcom-powered Ethernet port adapters as an add-in card. Other vendors such as Apple , Hewlett Packard Enterprise , and Raspberry Pi also use Broadcom NICs. In April 2017, Google's Project Zero investigated Broadcom's SoC WiFi stack and found that it lacked "all basic exploit mitigations - including stack cookies, safe unlinking and access permission protection," allowing "full device takeover by Wi-Fi proximity alone, requiring no user interaction." Numerous smartphones, such as by Apple, Samsung and Google were affected. Jericho2
2318-543: The deal to proceed. The transaction closed on November 22, 2023. On completion, CEO Hock Tan announced that the company would relocate its headquarters in San Jose to the VMware campus in Palo Alto . In February 2024, Broadcom sold the end-user computing division, which it inherited from the VMware acquisition, to KKR for $ 4 billion. Broadcom sells a range of semiconductor and infrastructure software applications that serve
2379-530: The deal, Cypress acquires Broadcom's IoT products and intellectual property for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee connectivity, as well as Broadcom's WICED platform and SDK for developers. The deal combined Broadcom's developer tools and connectivity technologies for IoT devices with Cypress' own programmable system-on-a-chip (SoC) products that provide memory, computing and graphics processing for low-power devices. In 2016, Broadcom proposed merging with Brocade Communications Systems . The acquisition proposal included
2440-571: The failure of the Qualcomm bid led Broadcom and its CEO to look at acquiring infrastructure software as an alternative way of growing in size. On 11 July 2018, news sources reported that Broadcom and CA Technologies agreed on terms for an $ 18.9 billion acquisition. CA Technologies, formerly known as Computer Associates, was a longtime giant in software for mainframe computers that had expanded its offerings into software for cloud computing . And on 5 November 2018, Broadcom announced that it had completed
2501-427: The file browser. In 1998, GHOST 4.1 supports password-protected images. This version dropped OS/2 support. Version 5.0 moved to 386 protected mode . Unlike the text-based user interface of earlier versions, 5.0 uses a graphical user interface (GUI). The Binary Research logo, two stars revolving around each other, plays on the main screen when the program is idle. In 1998, Gdisk, a script-based partition manager ,
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2562-1512: The 💕 (Redirected from Partition manager ) This is a list of utilities for performing disk partitioning . List [ edit ] Name Developer Licensing Maintained? Platform Last version release date DFSee Jan van Wijk Proprietary software Yes DOS, Linux, macOS, OS/2, Windows NT family October 6, 2021 Disk Director Acronis Proprietary software No Windows March 4, 2023 DiskGenius Eassos Proprietary software Yes Windows August 1, 2023 Disk Utility Apple Proprietary software Yes macOS diskpart Microsoft Proprietary software Yes Windows NT family fdisk (FreeDOS) Brian Reifsnyder Free software Yes FreeDOS fdisk (Microsoft) Microsoft Proprietary software No MS-DOS , Windows fdisk (OS/2) IBM Proprietary software Yes OS/2 fdisk (Unix-like) util-linux project Free software Yes Unix-like FIPS Arno Schäfer Free software No MS-DOS GNOME Disks Red Hat Free software Yes Linux GNU Parted CLI -only (GUIs: Gparted , QtParted ) The GParted Project Free software Yes Linux GParted ( GUI for GNU Parted ) The GParted Project Free software Yes Linux (Live CD
2623-424: The largest in the technology sector, received global regulatory scrutiny, including from China, which approved the deal with specific conditions. These conditions require VMware's server software to be compatible with local hardware and not restrict customers from using Broadcom's hardware products. Despite concerns over rising China-U.S. tensions, the approval from China, which was the last regulatory hurdle, allowed
2684-540: The newer hardware. Disk imaging competitors to GHOST have dealt with the decline of DOS by moving to other recovery environments such as FreeBSD , Linux or Windows PE , where they can draw on current driver development to be able to image newer models of disk controllers. Nevertheless, the DOS version of GHOST on compatible hardware configurations works much faster than most of the *nix based image and backup tools. GHOST 8 and later are Windows programs; as such, they can run on Windows PE, BartPE or Hiren's BootCD and use
2745-518: The original full backup (with .v2i filename extension) on a regular basis. Older .gho image files can be restored using GHOST Explorer, a separate utility. According to the Norton community on Symantec's site, the following features are available in Norton GHOST 15 of April 2010: Norton GHOST was discontinued on April 30, 2013. Support via chat and knowledge base was available until June 30, 2014. Until it
2806-432: The planned completion date out to May 26, 2023. On May 19, 2023, as both UK and EU regulators had yet to complete their investigations, the completion date was formally extended to August 26, 2023, and was later further extended to as late as November 26, 2023. On November 21, 2023, Broadcom Inc. announced its plan to finalize the $ 69 billion acquisition of VMware Inc . on the following Wednesday. This acquisition, one of
2867-514: The present name in November 2017. In October 2019, the European Union issued an interim antitrust order against Broadcom concerning anticompetitive business practices which allegedly violate European Union competition law . In May 2022, Broadcom announced an agreement to acquire VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $ 69 billion. The acquisition was closed on November 22, 2023. The company that would later become Broadcom Inc.
2928-645: The retail packaging for users needing to access those older images. The limitations of GHOST 9 compared to GHOST 2003 were not well-communicated by Symantec, and resulted in many dissatisfied customers who purchased GHOST 9 expecting the previous version's features (like making images from the bootable GHOST environment, no installation required, and no product activation). Released circa 2005. Supports creating images on CDs, DVDs, Iomega Zip and Jaz disks as well as IEEE 1394 (FireWire) and USB mass storage devices . Supports encrypting images and Maxtor external hard disk drives with Maxtor OneTouch buttons. GHOST 10.0
2989-503: The rise of streaming services. The Leichtman Research Group calculated that the largest pay TV providers in the U.S. – representing about 95% of the market – lost about 4,915,000 net video subscribers in 2019. Regular customers each pay $ 231 a year for their boxes, totaling almost $ 20 billion per year in profit for the cable industry. On January 7, 2020, Accenture PLC agreed to acquire Symantec's 300-person cybersecurity services division from Broadcom. In February 2020, Broadcom announced
3050-411: The same plug and play hardware drivers as a standard desktop computer, making hardware support for GHOST much simpler. Norton GHOST 2003, a consumer edition of Ghost, was released on September 6, 2002. Available as an independent product, Norton GHOST 2003 was also included as a component of Norton SystemWorks 2003 Professional. A simpler, non-corporate version of Ghost, Norton GHOST 2003 does not include
3111-428: The same year. These versions supported only the cloning of entire disks. They could run on an IBM XT and without extended memory. They also worked with OS/2 . Version 3.1, released in 1997 supports cloning individual partitions . GHOST could clone a disk or partition to another disk or partition or to an image file. GHOST allows for writing a clone or image to a second disk in the same machine, another machine linked by
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#17328512308543172-449: The world's first WiFi 6E client device, the BCM4389. In early 2020, Raspberry Pi inc revealed that their new boards would have a Broadcom BCM2711 chip. In May 2022, Broadcom announced their deal to acquire the virtualization and cloud computing software vendor VMware for $ 61 billion in a combination of cash and stock, with Broadcom assuming $ 8 billion in VMware debt. In November 2022,
3233-668: Was added in September 2017 (Enterprise only). Binary Research developed GHOST in Auckland , New Zealand. After the Symantec acquisition, a few functions (such as translation into other languages) were moved elsewhere, but the main development remained in Auckland until October 2009 at which time much was moved to India. Technologies developed by 20/20 Software were integrated into GHOST after their acquisition by Symantec in April 2000. GHOST 1.0 and 1.1 were released in 1996, followed by 2.0 (2.07) in
3294-629: Was announced in March 2015. GSS 3.1, including GHOST 12.0 and Deployment Solution 6.9, was released on 7 March 2016. GSS 3.2, including GHOST 12.0 and Deployment Solution 6.9, was released on 18 May 2017. Release Update 3, which was released 22 September 2017, added support for the ext4 filesystem. GSS 3.3, including GHOST 12.0 and Deployment Solution 6.9, was released on 31 October 2018. This release added support for GHOST Solution Suite Web Console, iPXE , Windows Server 2016, Smart raw imaging, and 4K native drive support. Broadcom Broadcom Inc.
3355-671: Was established in 1961 as HP Associates , a semiconductor products division of Hewlett-Packard . The division separated from Hewlett-Packard as part of the Agilent Technologies spinoff in 1999. KKR and Silver Lake Partners acquired the Semiconductor Products Group of Agilent Technologies in 2005 for $ 2.6 billion and formed Avago Technologies. Avago Technologies agreed to sell its I/O solutions unit to PMC-Sierra for $ 42.5 million in October 2005. In August 2008,
3416-478: Was further defined in February 2006, with the release of Norton Save And Restore (also known as Norton Backup And Restore ), a standalone backup application based on GHOST 10.0. GHOST Solution Suite 1.1 was released in December 2005. GHOST Solution Suite 1.1 is a bundle of an updated version of Ghost, Symantec Client Migration (a user data and settings migration tool) and the former PowerQuest equivalent, DeployCenter (using PQI images). It can create an image file that
3477-520: Was integrated in Ghost. Gdisk serves a role similar to Fdisk , but has greater capabilities. A Norton GHOST version for Novell NetWare (called 2.0), released around 1999, supports NSS partitions (although it runs in DOS , like the others). GHOST 6.0, released in 2000, includes a management console for managing large numbers of machines. The console communicates with client software on managed computers and allows
3538-690: Was ordered by the European Union to stop allegedly anticompetitive practices. In 2021, Broadcom agreed to settle an antitrust complaint which claimed it had abused its monopoly power through restrictive contract terms and threats of retaliation against non-compliant customers. Such contract terms stifle innovation and harm competition in the global supply market. European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said that Broadcom's contract terms with six main customers would "create serious and irreversible harm to competition" if no action were taken. In 2021, Broadcom agreed to settle an antitrust complaint, in which
3599-541: Was released as a new consumer version of Ghost, which is based on PowerQuest's Drive Image version 7, and provides Live imaging of a Windows system. GHOST 9 continues to leverage the PowerQuest (v2i) file format, meaning it is not backward compatible with previous versions of Ghost. However, a version of GHOST 8.0 is included on the GHOST 9 recovery disk to support existing GHOST customers. GHOST split into two code bases following
3660-433: Was released in May 2008. New features include: As of January 6, 2010, the latest build from Live Update is 11.5.1.2266 (Live Update 5 (LU5)). This updates GHOST Solution Suite to 2.5.1 and provides support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 . Furthermore, GHOST 11.5 is compatible with BartPE 's bootable CD using a PE Builder plug-in for Symantec GHOST 11 GSS 3.0, including GHOST 12.0 and Deployment Solution 6.9,
3721-637: Was removed, the Symantec GHOST Web page invited GHOST customers to try Symantec System Recovery, described as software for backup and disaster recovery. Released November 15, 2004, Symantec renamed the Enterprise version of GHOST to Symantec GHOST Solution Suite 1.0 . This helped clarify the difference between the consumer and business editions of the product. According to Symantec, Symantec GHOST and Norton GHOST are two separate product lines based around different technologies developed by different teams. This
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