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Title: Product key required for Ghost 2003 ?
Post by JagGuy on Mar 4^th, 2008 at 11:57am

Hello

I am brand new here and really appreciate your help.

I am not new to forums and I did search for this answer
before I posted the question.

I am going to buy a new, never used, Ghost 2003 cd and
the person selling it tells me there is no product key
required for this version.

Is this true? All I need is the cd and nothing else to register it
or use live update?

Thanks . . . . Brian

Title: Re: Product key required for Ghost 2003 ?
Post by Amish. on Mar 4^th, 2008 at 12:53pm

I don't recall having to enter a product key when installing Norton Ghost 2003, but it was a while ago. Seems I recall issues regarding "activation" began with Norton Ghost 9.

http://ghost.radified.com/norton_ghost_90.htm

Quote:

Also unlike Ghost 2003, Ghost 9 requires product activation (within 30 days, or the program quits working), just like Windows XP.

Title: Re: Product key required for Ghost 2003 ?
Post by NightOwl on Mar 5^th, 2008 at 1:53am

JagGuy

Same problem here--it's been a long time since the actual installation of Ghost 2003--don't remember having to use a product key or activation code--just looked at the installation CD and its sleeve--no codes anywhere!

Title: Re: Product key required for Ghost 2003 ?
Post by Christer on Mar 5^th, 2008 at 3:23am

JagGuy,

Quote:

Is this true? All I need is the cd and nothing else to register it or use live update?

It's true that there's no key to be entered during the installation of Ghost 2003 but regarding the use of LiveUpdate, there's a caveat. Ghost 2003 is an old product and you need to use the Symantec Archive server to get the updates. Have a look in Latest version of Ghost 2003 downloadable from Symantec on Feb 1, 08 for the details.

Christer