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Through January 20th, Downloadcrew.com is offering Acronis True Image Personal 2010 for Free downloaded. It's a competitor product to Norton's Ghost. Copy your entire PC, including the operating system, applications, user settings, and all data.
free is nice.
Hmm...I remember using this and I created a image of the hard disk.
Went to image on another pc and it didnt recognize my image that I made using the exact same software!
Could of been my bad but I am now using Paragon Free Home Edition
I have used Acronis True Image for several years and its a great product. When my hard drive started the infamous track seek dance, I got a new hard drive, booted off the Acronis TI CD, partitioned the new HD, and restored everything from backups in about an hour. PERFECT! I don't know what is left out in the Free version but the full version is cheap and there are frequent rebate offers that make it nearly free.
I've used Acronis from version 7 onward. I haven't gotten the 2012 version because of the lousy reviews. My biggest problem with every version is that when I clone a drive (the only thing I do), I don't know in advance if the clone will be any good. It fails on Sony's every time, frequently on ThinkPads. If you boot off the CD and do a clone, the cloned disk is horribly fragmented. I still use it because it gets the job done quickly. I just have to double check to see if the clone will boot.
This version has a nasty bug, if you use Mozy or other backup sw it will get a wierd failure.
Acronis True Image is free from WD, Seagate etc;. D/l and install on old computer, make boot disc. Boot from disc with new machine, make image (1st clean all temp folders and recycle bin and then defrag), save image on different partition, drive etc;. Be sure to check (tick) the verify image box when making the image. So easy.
Got a virus, want to try some iffy game, no prob. Boot from disc, restore from image file, back in business in less than 10 minutes, about 6 minutes for me.
For those that use windows junky system restore, don't.
Dibbs, What don't you like about the windows system restore. I've used Backup and Restore with Windows 7 and had no issues with it?
Goob - For so many reasons.
Just a few of the major ones.
System restore saves your backed up system files and settings in an inaccessible location (to you) but accessible to virus etc; so you restore files are also infected.
If you restore to a point where your files were infected when you made the restore point, you still have the viruses.
Sometimes these viruses make it so you can't access system restore and/or safe mode and then you choices are limited, most times being a complete re-install.
For XP users, garbage. If you have ever had to use Windows recovery console (command prompt typing involved, DOS), then you would know.
Do all the testing you want, games, drivers, codec packs, what ever you want (think out side the box), then just boot from cd, restore the image in minutes, back in business.
Then we have hard drive crashes.. self explanatory.
Image backup/restore much more safe and really quick on a fast machine.
Take a look at the feature list for this free to use backup program:
http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/comparison.htm
This will even create a bootable Windows PE recovery stick drive:
http://www.easeus.com/winpe-for-data-recovery.htm
Won't activate!
Thanks Dibbs