My old pc (w98se) came equipped with 'Go Back 3.1' which I used quite often to restore to system safe points when something or other went wrong. It came packaged with norton system works.

I now have a new pc which comes with a 60 day trial of norton ghost 10. Looking at windows xp the pc appears to come with its own restore feature with safe points created periodically. Am I right in thinking that windows will now perform what Go Back did on my old machine. If so what is the point of ghost 10?

Thanks

system restore puts back your registry and a few other odds and sods to a set point. norton ghost images your machine down to the last 0 and 1 on the disk.

system restore doesn't recover from serious errors, ghost will.

not used 10 (have used all other versions loads in a corporate setting, but 10 seems to be home-ified too much for serious disk imaging use now).

i'd say just partition your disk into a C and a D partitions, set your "My Documents" to point to D and install windows and your apps to C. if it screws up, reinstall to C leaving your data intact. ..

ric