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TechnoTV - Acronis True Image Home 2009
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List Price: $39.99
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Manufacturer: Acronis
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Acronis
EAN: 0890204002227
Feature: Copy entire PC, including operating system, applications, user settings, and all data; If a system or disk crash, virus attack or other failure, restore entire system disk in minutes.
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Acronis
Manufacturer: Acronis
Model: TI-12-MB-RT-W-EN
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Acronis
Release Date: 2008-09-12
Studio: Acronis
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Features
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Copy entire PC, including operating system, applications, user settings, and all data; If a system or disk crash, virus attack or other failure, restore entire system disk in minutes.
Use Acronis True image Home 2009 to restore all the settings for Microsoft Office, iTunes, Windows Media Player and any other installed applications
PC cloning or adding a new disk is simple with Acronis True Image Home 2009’s built-in migration tools. No longer must you reinstall the operating system, applications, or re-key user settings when you clone your PC or increase its storage capacity.
Acronis Drive Cleanser, a $50 value included at no charge, protects sensitive data from view by wiping a disk clean of all data.
If you don’t need to erase the entire disk, File Shredder safely destroys individual files so they can’t be resurrected.
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Summary: Reliable back up of System Partition and boot sector!
Comment: I had been using Norton's Ghost for years on my old system. When I got a new computer I found out that Ghost was redone with new code and had bad reviews for being unable to restore the system partition. I tried Paragon's Disk Management Suite 9.0, only to have my hard drive wiped clean when a restore of the system partition locked up right in the middle of the restore.
That's when I tried Acronis True Image Home 2009. Right after I installed Acronis, I let it find and install the newest version online. I then made a bootable restore disk which is simple to do. You just select this option in the menu, select your CD or DVD writable drive and it makes the disk for you.
I then selected the option to restore the system disk with the boot sector. It took 35 minutes to create an image of my system partition which was drive C:\ (I had 35 GB of data on the drive) It was easy to use. I was using an external 500GB USB drive for the backup. The software automatically found this drive and selected it for the backup image.
After removing some programs from my system partition, I put in the bootable restore disk and re-imaged my system drive and boot sector from the back up image. There was one place where the software asks you to select the destination disk but the choices took a couple minutes to appear. Once it appeared I selected my original drive and started the backup. This took the same amount of time as making the image. (35 minutes)
I took out the bootable disk and restarted my computer and everything was restored. If this software didn't do anything else I'd still be happy. Because with out a quick system restore like this, re-installing all the software, updates, drivers and settings on a hosed system can take all day instead of 35 minutes. The one thing that I was sure to do is uncheck the feature that would automatically make a new image every week. I was not sure if it overwrites the original or makes a new file name.
As far as just backing up files without the OS. I don't really care because Vista Home Premium already has a decent backup system built into the OS.
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Summary: Hard Drive Clone mostly successful
Comment: I am using Windows Vista Premium 64-bit. NOTE: The FREE TRIAL bootable disc clone function is disabled. I was able to create the bootable CD but it would not clone. The Windows version got hung up when trying to clone a 640GB hard drive. The drives were identical (same make, model & size). BE CAREFUL when selecting source and destination drives. The drives do not display in the same order each time you run the software. The bootable version display has even less information to help determine which drive is which. This is only a problem if you have two or more drives that are the same size. I created a bootable CD-R but that did not work because I had removed the SATA DVD drive and replaced it with two Plextor IDE drives (w/PCI card). I added the SATA DVD drive back in and got the bootable CD to work. The clone was successful using the bootable CD. Before I did that I also tried to create bootable removable media. That did not work but I did not figure out why. I changed the BIOS setting first, to boot from removable media, but that did not cure the problem. I used this software for cloning only and did not test any other functions. I prefer GoodSync for backup & restore. Note that the free Maxtor MaxBlast software appears to be the same as Acronis TrueImage for hard drive setup but it will only work if you have at least one Maxtor or Seagate drive installed.
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Summary: Excellent back up software
Comment: I upgraded from Acronis True Image 8.0 to Home 2009 recently.
And then I encountered a hard drive crash.
I reinstalled everything on a new hard drive, and used Acronis 2009 successfully to back up the hard drive several times.
I tested out the recovery as well, as I installed SQL server and had a problem with it. So I reverted to a previous Acronis image and it worked perfectly.
I also have the Acronis secure zone on my XP system, and it works flawlessly as well.
Overall I am very happy with Acronis and the functionality it has provided.
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Summary: Hard to Restore Disk Images
Comment: Acronis True Image Home 2009 is an excellent backup & recovery system for PC's. Unfortunately at least 90% of the people who have computers would not be able to or not have the time to figure out how to use the best features of the program.
I had an old computer with Windows XP so I decided to test True Image on it by creating an image of the entire internal hard drive on an external hard drive. Then using True Image I erased important Windows files so that the computer would not restart. Creating the image on the external drive was very easy but it took me all day to figure out how to get it back on the internal hard drive.
When Windows won't start you simply put the original Acronis CD in the CD drive on your computer. Since it is a bootable CD restarting the computer boots up the Acronis operating system and True Image starts up. The only problem is without Windows, True Image can't find your external hard drive or any back up files.
The complicated solution is to re-install Windows as it originally was when you purchased your computer (hopefully you have a Windows CD for that and you know how to do it). Then you re-install True Image on the operating Windows computer. Then you start True Image and if you can figure out the confusing procedures True Image will shut down your computer, restart itself from the Acronis bootable CD that you hopefully left in your CD drive, erase your entire hard drive, and reload the backup image that you have on your external hard drive. This actually works perfectly.
Now, a few weeks later, I find out that there is an add-on program on the Acronis bootable CD. If you use that you can make another bootable CD that apparently is capable of finding backup files on an external hard drive without Windows. Trouble is I got rid of my old computer and I'm not about to erase Windows files on my new one to see how well it works.
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Summary: Don't buy this
Comment: There is little to like and a lot to dislike about this program. It insists on making you operate its way, and tries to force you to schedule everything, schedule, schedule, schedule. "Do it our way, and do it when we damned well tell you to do it."
For example, when you just want to do a quick backup, it has all sorts of calender nonsense, even though it's just a backup. It won't use your name for the backup, so you end up with backup1, backup2, backup3, etc., with no easy clue as to when it was made and what is in the backup. It does not have conventional menus to get you where you need to go, you have to fumble around and try to find something that looks like it might be what you want. But few of the usual options are available. In other words, the programmers are so convinced that you are stupid and have no idea what you want, that they have made it essentially useless.
There there is the fact that it takes up a whopping 123 mb on your disk, and forces you to load a "service" that runs all the time, slowing down and clogging up your machine (and perhaps conflicting with a program you really need). Yet another program by programmers who apparently believe that your only purpose in having a computer is running their "wonderful" software.
My son has a previous version of this software that I've used on his machine, and although I didn't like it much, at least it was functional. I can't say the same about 2009.
I've uninstalled it, I haven't decided whether to throw it away or donate it. It's certainly not something I'm willing to use.
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