I note that your lengthy reply says a lot about your perceived
inadequacies of some products
Was I unfair? The Powerquest products were very good, but
also very expensive. They milked a monopoly for a long time.
I haven't tried Acronis, but I notice they've picked up on the
Powerquest trick of splitting up the necessary functionality into
multiple programs unnecessarily. I don't see any reason not to
point out that they're overpriced. (I suspect, though, from what
I've read here, that the Acronis products are probably more
polished and beginner-friendly than BootIt, just as the Powerquest
products were very smoothly put together and easier for a
beginner to use than, say, Ghost.)
As for Symantec, I could go on all day.
As far as I know
they've never actually written software. They buy companies
with a good name and exploit that. One might say that's
mainly my own personal opinion, but there are also some facts
involved:
Clean Sweep did more as a Quarterdeck product. Most notably,
it could actually copy an entire installed program from one system and
install it to another. Drive Image I already mentioned. AtGuard
was one of the best firewalls ever, way ahead of its time. Symantec
licensed that, doubled the price, removed functionality, and set
over 800 programs to have default permission to get through the
firewall. The resulting mess was their Norton Internet Firewall.
but makes no mention about
the need to back up important files prior to resizing/moving
partitions. Such operations are highly intrusive and they go
dramatically wrong on occasions, perhaps because of a bug
or because of a power outage.
Yes. Good point. That's also my logic with doing full
configuration and disk imaging with each installed system
before proceeding, so that if things do go wrong it's only
actual data files that need replacing and not software,
settings, etc. ... It's very easy to lose everything at any
time.
