Andy,

According to the Ghost 10 User Manual
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I believe though you can contact Symantec about multiple license discounts.

Rama wrote on Mar 30^th, 2007 at 3:31pm:


I thought the llicense agreement doesn't say anything about install or not.  You can only USE it on one.  (Similar to one license of XP can only be used on one pc.)

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Do you mean you can buy one license and then use it on 4 (or 40) pc's?

AndyT wrote on Mar 30^th, 2007 at 2:23pm:

Rama wrote on Mar 30^th, 2007 at 3:31pm:

John. wrote on Mar 30^th, 2007 at 3:52pm:

AndyT wrote on Mar 30^th, 2007 at 6:50pm:


View the image below to realize that the source of your confusion may boil down to either "walking-on-the-dark-side (hot-imaging)" or "walking-on-the-bright-side (cold-imaging)".

 

Should you decide to go the "hot-imaging" route with either Norton Ghost 10.0, Norton Save & Restore, or Norton SystemWorks 2006 Premier, I would think that you will have to activate them with a 25-character Product Key.  It seems to me that this would tie one license to one PC.

On the other hand, one can readily bypass any and all product activation or registration procedures by simply using the installation CDs from either Norton Ghost 10.0 or Norton Save & Restore - plus the Symantec Recovery Disk included with Norton SystemWorks 2006 Premier - to boot up into what is called the Windows XP Preinstallation Environment.  From there, one can immediately engage the legacy Backup/Restore "cold-imaging" procedures by following the path

'Recover > Recover Data on My Computer > Recover using a legacy Ghost image'

.  Doing so will yield the side benefit of bypassing both USB mass-storage device and - most, if not all - SATA HDD glitches frequently encountered with DOS-dependent Norton Ghost 2003.  In essence, this procedure uses (an alternate name for ) to allow both immediate creation of Ghost Backup images or the converse Recovery of such images that are in fact totally compatible and interchangeable with those *.gho/*.ghs files created with the of Norton Ghost 2003 -

but not with those files created with Norton Ghost 9, Norton Ghost 10.0, or Norton Save & Restore during "hot-imaging".

If you really want to get downright fancy, you could even go so far as to incorporate the essential components of the "cold-imaging" Norton Ghost Ver 8.2 while generating a bootable BartPE or Reatogo-X-PE CD to run in the Windows XP Preinstalled Environment (see below).



CLICK HERE and then again HERE to appreciate how Mail-In Rebates for Symantec products allow me to place the concomitant licensed product alongside nearly a dozen PCs either under my roof or under my aegis across three southern states DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE NEVER ACTIVATE NOR REGISTER SAID PRODUCTS AS WE USE THEIR ELEMENTS IN REATOGO-X-PE CDs AS ACTIVE COUNTERPARTS TO NORTON GHOST 2003.   After all, it does not pay in the long run to ever get "crossways" with the telephone company, the Coca-Cola company nor with Symantec

AndyT

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Legally--one license for each system Ghost is used on--either installed, or the program is used to create and/or restore images to and from a given system.

El_Pescador wrote on Mar 30^th, 2007 at 8:28pm:


I don't understand what all the concern and discussion here is.  AndyT asked a simple question,
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NightOwl gave a very simple answer
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Is this a forum for or for information?

I see it as simple:  If you want to use Ghost on 4 pc's, you need 4 legal licenses.  If you have 24 pc's, you need 24 legal licenses.

If you have $1 in your checking account, you can't write a check for $4.  It's that simple.

I don't think the Rad Forum and posters should be encouraging piracy, stealing, or dissemination of information on how to do that, whether it is with cd's, diskettes, BartPE, Reatogo-X-PE etc etc.  We shouldn't be providing information on robbing banks, blowing up buildings, or other illegal activities.  Period.  Regardless of whether some other people do that.

We should try to be good world citizens.  (not trying to flame, just my 2 cents here)

John. wrote on Mar 31^st, 2007 at 2:37pm:

I thoroughly concur, and take no offense from your remarks.

El_Pescador wrote on Mar 30^th, 2007 at 8:28pm:

This is not a recommendation, but instead a simple and accurate observation as outlined below.

John. wrote on Mar 31^st, 2007 at 2:37pm:

In truth and in fact, his simple question does not have a simple answer for when you consider the fact that I personally have bought retail boxed copies of Ghost on the order of two Ghost 9s, five Ghost 10s, and two Norton Search & Restore in addition to a few others by friends and family in my overall circle across Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida only to have ONLY ONE COPY of those "hot-imaging" Norton Ghost products enumerated above to have ever been activated - and even it was taken out service permanently in less than a week.

All across our tristate circle - with each household having two or more PCs - Norton Ghost 2003 is our lingua franca.  While the Ghost 9/10 products had extra Ghost v2003 CDs, the overwhelming majority of our licenses were derived from OEM copies of Norton SystemWorks 2003 Professional which I literally bought dozens in bulk @ $7.00 with free shipping.  Today, the Norton Ghost 9/10 and Save & Restore CDs are on file alongside PCs where they serve - silently, uninstalled, unactivated and unregistered - so as to legitimize the Norton Ghost Ver 8.2 plugins of the Reatogo-X-PE bootable CDs instantly at hand which serve as alternates to Norton Ghost 2003 already installed onboard.

John. wrote on Mar 31^st, 2007 at 2:37pm:

Since I do value your opinion - and have long been an admirer of your contributions to these boards - I beg of you to be exceedingly specific of what practices are kosher and what practices are unsuitable for these boards.  I, for one, will take your commentary into very close consideration.

I obviously stated my previous post too strongly.  I've cooled down now.    

I think I was reacting to previous threads on mostly other boards where someone will say "How can I use my 1 copy of Ghost" on 4 or 5 or 20 pc's?"  Sometimes the answer is to make boot-diskettes (Ghost 2003) or use the Ghost 10 Recovery CD only, but use it on all 20 pc's in the cold-imaging mode.  That way you don't have to activate, and since you can activate Ghost 10 on only 1 pc, no one will know.

While BartPE, ubcd4win, and others, are legitimately (and what a life saver they can be!) used for offline technician repairs, they are also used to abuse vendor licenses, by adding plugins that aren't licensed for the pc that they are used on.

The poster never wants to know about volume licensing discounts or the Enterprise versions of the products and their costs.  Only, how can I get away with buying one and using it on all my pc's?  Vendors such as Symantec and Microsoft and others created "activation" technology to marry the software to one pc for a reason:  registration and serial numbers weren't doing the job of protecting their software.

I applaud El_Pescador for pointing out all the discounts available.  We should all take advantage of them.  I always send in my rebate forms.  I track them and I've followed up (and gotten) a legitimate rebate after being denied it a couple times.

Maybe a fence-straddling position which I am advocating (now that I have cooled down), is to determine what the purpose of the poster or what question is, and act and answer accordingly and responsively.

So, for AndyT, my answer would be the same as NightOwl's:
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I like the NAV 2007 (and other vendor's) models that provide 3-license packages.  Now a days, most homes (especially with school age children) have 2 or 3 computers easily.

And I appreciate and value the opinions of everyone here as well.  (Sorry I was too off-the-wild-end!)