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Message: [QUOTE="anyman, post: 14084791"] Reasons why you should not buy Terabyte software, specifically their partitioning/imaging software: 1) many complaints on their newsgroup about people unable to obtain a clean uninstall of their software which alters the hard drive beginning sectors-you can't get rid of it once it's there. They even alter the floppies used in installation such that you have to zero out the floppy to use it for other apps afterwards. 2) Terribly written, as if written by a foreigner, documentation.which is only understandable if you know all about hard drive boot geometry ahead of time. 3) Terabyte support no longer answers posts on their support newsgroup. The rest of the people there really cannot address the technical questions that arise, of which there are MANY from use of their software. When they did answer questions, their replies were often cryptic in a passive aggressive fashion similar to the computer guy on Saturday Night Live. You have to kiss their ass or beg them to get a straight answer. 4) Terabyte does unprofessional things like install code that makes your computer beep loudly and continuously if you enter the wrong registration info beyond the 30 day trial. This is their semi-malware way of forcing you to buy their product and temporarily disables your computer from booting whilst you try to figure out a way around their malware. 5) The software itself has very poor help pages, poorly written in technical garb that, if you understood most of it, you probably wouldn't need their software to begin with. Error messages are impossible to understand only understandable by the developers. 6) Their software bootitng is available free p2p and elsewhere. Their new software is nothing more than an extension of the old stuff with the same flaws and poor support. 7) I will say that their imaging does work for partition restore, but their image viewer is proprietary and you cannot open their images with third party software. Also their image viewer is slow and does not work on some systems. It modifies the Windows registry and installs a dll file that I am guessing links to windows explorer. Very slow to open when it works at all. 8) Linux has much better tools and Terabyte's partitioning tools do not work well with linux. 9) Terabytes latest bootitng unreliably supports usb drives, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. My suggestion is to use Ghost,several free versions on p2p that are virus free and has a MUCH better imaging file manager. Faster than TB software and compresses image files to significantly smaller sizes. [/QUOTE]

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