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4 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
 GoBack 4 is a Go!!!, 2005-03-18
I just started this software almost two weeks now. I had lost everything on my PC before but luckly I had a backup. So I decided to give GoBack a try. I am loving it!!! It's especially great if you have the hard disk space. Drives are cheap now so there's no excuse. I allocated more than the 10% (the more the better) and I have 3 disks installed with different partitions. GoBack has been awsome when I install a software that is not working properly; or if a spyware hijacked my pc, etc. It's very easy to use (reading the manual is a most). The only problem I've had was using Partition Magic only because I didn't read the manual beforehand. I now know that I have to disable GoBack in order to use Partition Magic. This is not a perfect software. I don't like the uninstall when upgrading OS or installing service packs. Overall if you have important information on your PC and you are constantly doing work, I highly recommend it. For those of you who had trouble with the software I would go back and rethink the purpose you bought this software. For the GoBack fans, Enjoy it and Smile when you are able to recover without doing a backup. Note: Backups are still important. You just don't have to do it as frequent.
 GoBack to the Store, 2005-03-16
Great product if you don't need that pesky boot up process. I ran a clean install of Windows XP Pro and installed GoBack 4.0 as the first application. I reboot and... ta da! Nothing. No boot, no XP, no nothing. Just a black screen.
What's really amazing is that they have this problem documented in the manual within the installation steps. This isn't a bug that was found after the release of the product whereby you could download a fix and be on your merry way. No, this was known early enough to make it into the published documentation! Also in the documentation is the URL where you can find the solution. Fortunately it was easy to disable and subsequently boot normally. Unfortunately the solution mentions absolutely nothing about getting the product to work as it should.
This problem is not just a few isolated instances. It's a major problem with version 4.0 that they have the courtesy to mention in the manual but not on the box.
9 of 12 customers found the following review helpful:
Buy at your own risk, 2005-02-25
Unless you have a brand new computer, or one with a monstrous hard drive, you may wind up wasting your money on this program. When I tried to install the program, it returned an error message that 5,700-plus MB of contiguous free space was needed in order for the program to run. I have a 60 gigabyte hard drive newly degragmented, with huge chunks of contiguous free space, but GoBack repeatedly refused to install. A query to Symantec produced a belated warning about the free space requirement and several suggestions that were not helpful, including the advice that I buy "a third party defragmenter." Since Amazon.com will not accept the return of any CD that has been opened (see their returns policy), I'm stuck with an expensive piece of totally useless software. Another glorious victory for Symantec.
32 of 34 customers found the following review helpful:
Resource hog, 2005-01-27
I recently loaded GoBack 4 on my 2.8 GHz P4 with 1 gig of ram and SATA hard drive. It's a really fast XP Pro SP1 machine that I keep free of spyware, malware, viruses, unnecessary services; in short, degunked. GoBack dramatically slowed down my machine when running Adaware and Spybot SD. Also, after NAV 2002 scanned, the hard drive was in use for about an hour afterwards with, once again, a dramatic decline in performance. When used with other applications there was a noticable slow down. When two applications were running simultaneously performance degradations were worse. In addition, as noted by others, Symantec's support ranks with the worst.
I suspect it does a great job with recovery. I disabled it before I used that function. I get viruses extremely infrequently. If my antivirus software doesn't repair the problem, I format the hard drive and reload. I back up my important data to Zip discs or an external hard drive frequently and religiously.
If you are looking for a backup solution and don't mind a significant performance penalty, this program is one possibility. It's unfortunate that mainstream PC mags continue to highly recommend Symantec products without mentioning the consistent, serious problems noted by a high percentage of users. I have and will continue to vigorously avoid all Symantec products
18 of 22 customers found the following review helpful:
 makes that sinking feeling go away, 2005-01-07
I have been using GoBack since the mid or late 1990s--I believe it was first sold by Adaptec before Roxio took it over and now Norton sells it. GoBack 4 is the first upgrade by Norton. This is a great product which reverts your hard drive to a state before a problem developed in your hard drive and so will make the problem go away. System restore is okay but GoBack will revert everything on your hard drive not just certain files, so more problems can be corrected, and you can also selectively recover files even if they have been emptied from the recycle bin without having to revert your hard drive. Another advantage is that GoBack loads before Windows so if there is a severe problem with Windows you can still restore Windows to a healthy state. This upgrade has increased the default storage space for a healthy revert from 4GB to 8GB--this means you can go back further in time--from a few days to a week or more depending on your file activity, and has added a few new bells and whistles. I installed GoBack 4 about a week ago and have already used it twice. Aside from antivirus programs, this is the best utility that you can buy.
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