Drive Image Software

[Ed Forsythe]

I'm running XP Pro and Drive Image 7 (excellent), Symantec Bought out
PowerQuest and immediately stopped supporting Drive Image so, in
anticipation of migrating to Vista (eventually), I'm looking for another
drive imaging app. I will *not* use Ghost or any other Symantec product so
I've narrowed my choices to Paragon's Drive backup and Acronis' True Image.
Any recommendations?

 

[Jonathan Yaniv]

Use Acronis.

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[dev]

/Ed Forsythe/ said:

I'm running XP Pro and Drive Image 7 (excellent), Symantec Bought out
PowerQuest and immediately stopped supporting Drive Image so, in
anticipation of migrating to Vista (eventually), I'm looking for another
drive imaging app. I will *not* use Ghost or any other Symantec product so
I've narrowed my choices to Paragon's Drive backup and Acronis' True Image.
Any recommendations?

Image for Windows or BootIt (which adds a boot manager)...
http://terabyteunlimited.com

Excellent on-line support. Inexpensive. Well engineered.

 

[Richard Urban]

Either TrueImage HOME 10 (latest version please) or TrueImage Workstation 9
(latest version please).

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[BChat]

Acronis True Image

I'm running XP Pro and Drive Image 7 (excellent), Symantec Bought out
PowerQuest and immediately stopped supporting Drive Image so, in
anticipation of migrating to Vista (eventually), I'm looking for another
drive imaging app. I will *not* use Ghost or any other Symantec product so
I've narrowed my choices to Paragon's Drive backup and Acronis' True Image.
Any recommendations?

 

[Pistachio]

I'm running XP Pro and Drive Image 7 (excellent), Symantec Bought out
PowerQuest and immediately stopped supporting Drive Image so, in
anticipation of migrating to Vista (eventually), I'm looking for another
drive imaging app. I will *not* use Ghost or any other Symantec product so
I've narrowed my choices to Paragon's Drive backup and Acronis' True
Image. Any recommendations?

Trueimage, FTW.

 

[Vanguard]

I'm running XP Pro and Drive Image 7 (excellent), Symantec Bought out
PowerQuest and immediately stopped supporting Drive Image so, in
anticipation of migrating to Vista (eventually), I'm looking for
another drive imaging app. I will *not* use Ghost or any other
Symantec product so I've narrowed my choices to Paragon's Drive backup
and Acronis' True Image.

For Acronis TrueImage, go visit their forums and make up your own mind
based on what its users are saying about the product and what problems
they are having with it.

 

[D. Spencer Hines]

Acronis -- Excellent Program.

TrueImage HOME 10.

CLEAN...

An excellent companion to PerfectDisk.

Caveat:

I'm using them on XP Pro.

DSH

 

[Richard Urban]

I have restored my Vista partition (on a dual boot system with Windows XP)
dozens of times in the past two months, after testing and tossing various
applications. I have never had a malfunction.

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Richard Urban
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(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Richard]

If you get Vista Ultimate or business it has imaging software built in & it
works great.

 

[Scott]

I'm running XP Pro and Drive Image 7 (excellent), Symantec Bought out
PowerQuest and immediately stopped supporting Drive Image so, in
anticipation of migrating to Vista (eventually), I'm looking for another
drive imaging app. I will *not* use Ghost or any other Symantec product so
I've narrowed my choices to Paragon's Drive backup and Acronis' True Image.
Any recommendations?

Another vote for TrueImage Home

The latest version (10) adds Vista Support.

You can get the download version straight from the source for $49.99.

However, someone recently pointed out that newegg.com offers the
boxed version for $45.00 (incl 3 day shipping), or $31.90 (download).


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[Scott]

If you get Vista Ultimate or business it has imaging software built in & it
works great.

I'm running Ultimate, but I've not looked at it myself. And from what
I've read (here) , you can't fine-tune it like you can with
third-party software such as Acronis TrueImage.
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[Ed Forsythe]

Thanks for the tip Richard - good to know. However, I need something that
is Vista ready but which will work with XP Pro. I don't plane to migrate to
Vista until some of the bugs are ironed out and I'd rather not buy something
that is incompatible with Vista.

 

[MICHAEL]

I'm running XP Pro and Drive Image 7 (excellent), Symantec Bought out PowerQuest and
immediately stopped supporting Drive Image so, in anticipation of migrating to Vista
(eventually), I'm looking for another drive imaging app. I will *not* use Ghost or any other
Symantec product so I've narrowed my choices to Paragon's Drive backup and Acronis' True
Image. Any recommendations?

Acronis True Image 10.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/



-Michael

 

[Scott]

Thanks for the tip Richard - good to know. However, I need something that
is Vista ready but which will work with XP Pro. I don't plane to migrate to
Vista until some of the bugs are ironed out and I'd rather not buy something
that is incompatible with Vista.

Acronis TrueImage Home V10 is compatible with both. I have it. I've
used it.

Depending on how you want to back up, it gives you a lot more
flexibility than the built-in utility in Vista and at $50.00 it's a
great deal (imo).

They also offer a free-trial (30-days I believe).

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.

 

[Ed Forsythe]

Thanks - Troops, and thank you Scott for the NewEgg tip - I'm off to NewEgg
for the download. Nothing better than good *and* cheap

 

[etoel]

Arconis TrueImage has saved my butt several times, both in Vista and XP - a
real bargain
The Linux based Boot/rescueCD works like a charm, it even loads the drivers
for my raid controller.

 

[Richard]

It just makes the image within windows while you carry on working & you
restore by booting from the Vista DVD & doing a repair.

 

[GreenWing]

Acronis True Image 10.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

Before you buy Acronis TrueImage, check out their support forum (well I
would say Lack of Support forum)

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65

There are many of us long time users having issues with TI-10 and Vista and
getting very little support...

GreenWing

 

[D. Spencer Hines]

So, one should still buy TrueImage Home 10.0.

How about the Disk Defragmenter in Vista Ultimate -- how does it compare to
PerfectDisk?

DSH