Norton Goback 3.5 is a windows-based disc recovery tool. Having Goback installed is like waking up on the same day every single morning. Everything looks the same, feels the same, and works the same. There is no way you can change anything, and that, I guess, is a good thing. What this application does is detect the moments where the user is not doing anything on the computer and record what the computer looked like at that point. It will create markers for all your files, and keep a history of changes. It somehow works like Microsoft's system restore, but this is a much more solution, since it actually saves up to 8 gigabytes of file changes. The user, at any time, can choose one of the instances the program remembers and restore the whole operative system back to that moment. Norton GoBack is no longer being sold separately, but is bundled in Norton Systemworks. All in all, this is a great backup solution, but not for the regular user. They should look to buy a simpler back up solution.

This review applies to version 3.5. The latest version of this software will soon be reviewed by our informers. Norton Goback 3.5 is a windows-based disc recovery tool. Having Goback installed is like waking up on the same day every single morning. Everything looks the same, feels the same, and works the same. There is no way you can change anything, and that, I guess, is a good thing. What this application does is detect the moments where the user is not doing anything on the computer and record what the computer looked like at that point. It will create markers for all your files, and keep a history of changes. It somehow works like Microsoft's system restore, but this is a much more solution, since it actually saves up to 8 gigabytes of file changes. The user, at any time, can choose one of the instances the program "remembers" and restore the whole operative system back to that moment. Norton GoBack is no longer being sold separately, but is bundled in Norton Systemworks. All in all, this is a great backup solution, but not for the regular user. They should look to buy a simpler back up solution.

Norton GoBack is no longer available. They now have Save & Restore 2.0 in their Sytemworks 12.0 Premier Package. The last actual seperate GoBack was Norton GoBack 4.?? and is available still at Amazon.com for 49.99, but is not for Vista. GoBack has been available over the years as Roxio GoBack, (which happened to come on Norton Systemworks 2002) as well as being available seperately from Roxio. There was also Adaptec GoBack. For fans of GoBack, which I was for a number of years, look into Rollback RX. It's compatable with Vista and a very good product.

Norton GoBack (previously WildFile GoBack, Adaptec GoBack, and Roxio GoBack) is a Microsoft Windows based disk utility that can record up to 8 GB of disk changes. When the filesystem is idle for a few seconds, it marks these as "safe points". The product allows the disk drive to be reverted to any point within the available history. It also allows older versions of files to be restored, and previous versions of the whole disk to be browsed. Depending on disk activity, the typical history might cover a few hours to a few days.

How it works GoBack replaces the Master Boot Record, and also replaces the partition table with a single partition. This allows a hard drive to be reverted even in the event that the Operating System is unable to boot, while also protecting the filesystem from alteration so that the revert information remains correct. GoBack is compatible with hardware RAID drives. Due to the changes made to the partition table, this can cause problems when dual booting other operating systems on the same hard disk. It is possible to retain dual-boot compatibility, but can involve saving the partition table before enabling GoBack, and after enabling GoBack, re-writing the partition table back to the disk (after booting from a different device, such as a Live CD). It may also be necessary to disable GoBack prior to using certain low level disk utilities, such as formatting software. Such low level utilities which do not first check for the presence of GoBack can (in combination with GoBack) cause data to become corrupted. Another example of an incompatible program is the Windows version of Acronis Image For Windows. GoBack is also incompatible with products such as Drive Vaccine PC Restore and RollBack Rx - as these products require access to the MBR (Master Boot Record).