Operating system
Windows 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems:

• Windows Vista Home Basic
• Windows Vista Home Premium
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows XP Home (SP2 or later)
• Windows XP Professional (SP2 or later)
• Windows XP Media Center Edition (SP2 or later)
  

RAM
Memory requirements per key components:

• Norton Ghost Agent: 256 MB
• Norton Ghost user interface and Recovery Point Browser: 256 MB
• Symantec Recovery Disk: 512 MB minimum 

Hard drive free space

• Norton Ghost Service: 65.2 MB
• Recovery Point Browser: 30.6 MB
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0: 280 MB of hard disk space required for 32-bit computers, and 610 MB for 64-bit computers
• Recovery points: Sufficient hard disk space on a local hard disk or network server for storing recovery points 
  
  

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
The drive can be any speed, but must be bootable from the BIOS.

Norton Ghost uses Gear Software technology. To verify that your CD writer or DVD writer is compatible, read Supported DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD-RAM, and CD-R/RW drives. You can look up information about your writer if you know the name of the manufacturer and model number of your writer.

Software
The .NET Framework 2.0 is required to run Norton Ghost 12.0.

If the .NET Framework is not already installed, then Norton Ghost 12.0 installs it for you.