Ghost 15 laughed at that.

The killer feature was . Imagine a ransomware attack scrambles your boot sector. Imagine your new SSD is corrupted. Standard backups require you to install Windows, then the driver, then the software, then you can restore.

Was it stable? It crashed constantly. If you tried to game or render video while Ghost was imaging, you’d get a corrupted .v2i file and a headache.

But when it worked? It was magic. Corporate IT departments loved scheduling Ghost 15 to run at 2:00 AM, capturing a perfect snapshot of a trading floor terminal or a medical workstation without ever shutting down. Let’s be honest: The interface of Norton Ghost 15 looked like a rejected Windows XP control panel. It had tabs, cryptic icons, and a "Recovery Point Browser" that required a computer science degree to navigate.