Drive Image Software

[Richard]

Not necessarily. You might want to buy TrueImage, but not everyone would
need to.
I want to backup & restore the entire system, so it does the job for me.
There is a 2nd backup option in Vista to backup files on a schedule which I
also use successfully, so that's all my backup needs covered.

Not used Perfectdisk since NT4 days which didn't include a defrag app.
Since then i've used the built in defrag in 2000/XP/Vista & ran it
overnight.
No complaints here.

But if you need more features in a imaging app maybe you need 3rd party.

 

[D. Spencer Hines]

Yes, any sophisticated, intelligent, user needs more options than that.

Can you defrag system files in Vista?

Can you see precisely which files are fragmented and just defragment those?

Can you pack everything closely together if you choose or leave more open
spaces and take longer to defrag?

Can you carefully and selectively backup just individual folders and use
either incremental backups or full backups.

Can you backup 20 GB of programs and data over a USB link to an external HDD
in less than 20 minutes?

Once you've backed up the built-in HDD, can you then go to your backup up
files individually and read or look at the graphics files -- as if they were
on your HDD with full ability to copy them and pull them out for use?

DSH

Not necessarily. You might want to buy TrueImage, but not everyone would
need to.

 

[D. Spencer Hines]

Recte:

Yes, any sophisticated, intelligent, user needs more options than that.

Can you defrag system files in Vista?

Can you see precisely which files are fragmented and just defragment those?

Can you pack everything closely together if you choose or leave more open
spaces and take longer to defrag?

Can you carefully and selectively backup just individual folders and use
either incremental backups or full backups.

Can you backup 20 GB of programs and data over a USB link to an external HDD
in less than 20 minutes?

Once you've backed up the built-in HDD, can you then go to your backup files
individually and read or look at the graphics files -- as if they were
on your HDD, with full ability to copy them and pull them out for use?

DSH

Not necessarily. You might want to buy TrueImage, but not everyone would
need to.

 

[Richard]

Don't need any of these options, nor do a lot of users.