Free Norton Ghost Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Norton Ghost for Windows and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best free Windows alternative is Clonezilla, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Norton Ghost and many of them are free and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows alternatives to Norton Ghost are AOMEI Backupper, Win32 Disk Imager, EaseUS ToDo BackUp and Paragon Backup & Recovery.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Norton Ghost alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. Clonezilla icon
     524 likes

    Discover a free, open-source solution for disk imaging and cloning. Clonezilla ensures efficient large-scale deployment by simultaneously cloning over 40 computers. Supports unicasting and multicasting for versatile backup, based on Partclone and more for enhanced speed. Ideal for tech pros.

    72 Clonezilla alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    |
    1
  2. AOMEI Backupper icon
     76 likes

    Protects operating systems, files, and disks on Windows PCs and Servers with full backup, cloning, and migration tools. Offers sync, encrypted backups, flexible restore to dissimilar hardware or partitions, scheduled and real-time backups, and space management features.

    39 AOMEI Backupper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. A utility that can write a raw backup image of your hard drive to a removable device or vice versa.

    49 Win32 Disk Imager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    |
    1
  4. Provides full, incremental, and differential backups for files, partitions, and system. Offers disaster recovery, automatic scheduling, fast disk or partition cloning, encrypted storage, backup verification, selective file restore, and management tools.

    60 EaseUS ToDo BackUp alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Paragon Backup & Recovery is an advanced backup and recovery software. You may backup files, volumes and disks entirely or pick one at a time. Select the OS partition, and you get all the necessary boot partitions. If your operating system crashes, you can recover it easily.

    55 Paragon Backup & Recovery alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  6. DriveImage XML icon
     36 likes

    DriveImage XML is a reliable program for easy imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. Image creation uses Microsofts Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe "hot images" even from drives currently in use.

    51 DriveImage XML alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    |
    1
  7. R-Linux icon
     6 likes

    Efficient file recovery tool designed for Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 FS within Linux and Unix systems, utilizing IntelligentScan. Free utility, excludes network and RAID features, but provides reliable recovery on supported platforms.

    97 R-Linux alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    |
    1
  8. Genie Timeline icon
     36 likes

    Offers continuous, automatic backup for music, videos, photos, and documents with settable frequency, backup resumption, system recovery, space-saving, restore points, lightweight operation, easy setup, turbo mode, and support for local, external, or network drives.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. O&O DiskImage icon
     9 likes

    Seamlessly generate complete system or partition images without disruption. Ensure quick recovery with secured data retrieval, schedule backups, and even create bootable media to restore functionality if Windows fails. Supports differential imaging, email alerts, and AI-enhanced backup suggestions.

    56 O&O DiskImage alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. MiniTool Drive Copy is a piece of quite excellent free drive copy software which provides users with professional solutions to disk copy and partition copy. Moreover, it can give hard disk data strongest protection in the shortest time.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. USB Image Tool icon
     25 likes

    USB Image Tool can create images of USB flash drives and MP3 players, that are mounted as USB drives. It allows you switch between images with different music styles on your MP3 Player or to make an exact backup image of your USB Stick.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. rdiff-backup icon
     15 likes

    rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
12 of 30 Norton Ghost alternatives