[buf]

A FREE imaging software backup program: http://www.macrium.com/ReflectFree.asp

Reminds me a bit, and seems "close", to Acronis!!!

Wandered across this last night and no, I have not used it.

[JohnWill]

Good find.

[Plantsman]

A point worth mentioning, you can only restore a Macrium disk image with the boot CD and not create one, so you need to install the program first to create an image to restore later. Maybe not that important but Acronis and Shadowprotect do have this feature but then Macrium is free or much cheaper to buy than these two. Just thought I'd set the record straight.

[1002richards]

Hi,
A bit different, but for docs/images you're working on 'Filehamster' could be useful. I've had Word crash a few times and this has bailed me out:
http://www.mogware.com/FileHamster/

Richard

[buf]

Sounds like experience Plantsman and I, we, appreciate your suggestion. Now, I have to just remember to do that IF I choose to use it. Don't know that Acronis is beatable.

[buf]

richards, appreciate your input and recommendation.

[1002richards]

buf,
You're welcome.

Richard

[buf]

Something just came to mind. I thought I recalled reading that having more than one imagining application installed would cause problems. Anyone know if this is true or not??
I do not intend to remove Acronis 11 to prove or disprove this because I am too happy with its results each time I have to use it.

[Plantsman]

I know you cannot use Storagecraft's Shadowprotect while Acronis is installed. Even if you uninstall Acronis there are still left over files which need to be removed first. This may be true of other imaging programs, I wouldn't know but Acronis does leave 'hooks' behind which might interfere with these also.

[buf]

Thanks. Guess I knew I wasn't going to remove Acronis. Nothing does its job better than Acronis; for my money.

[Plantsman]

Originally Posted by buf

Nothing does its job better than Acronis; for my money.

One of the luckier users then!

[JohnWill]

I've used Acronis True Image and Disk Director for years here, and it's worked very well. There are a LOT of lucky Acronis users.

There is no issue that I know of having more than one imaging utility installed at the same time, it's never affected me. I used to have GHOST and TI installed on several machines, eventually I moved totally to TI.

[Stoner]

I'm also a lucky TI user and even luckier because it's free to Maxtor/Seagate hard drive owners.
It's included in Discwizard which can be downloaded here:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/sup...ads/discwizard

Did I mention it's free?..........

[Plantsman]

Let's not be too euphoric here. For the uninitiated it is well to be aware that there ARE problems for many users using Acronis Trueimage. This is not to say that the product is necessarily a bad one but rather it can present problems with some systems and in my opinion could largely be avoided if only Acronis would adopt a Windows based boot CD rather than the Linux one.

I can only say I had a five month hassle with Acronis and their boot CD which I posted on this forum. I don't really want to get into a debate on this matter again, but rather to say that if anyone is thinking to purchasing Acronis to consider the possible downsides as well as the up. There seems to be a blind bias at the moment on Acronis being the very best in it's category, an opinion to which I once subscribed, but have now realised there are more dependable products out there and for me it is Shadowprotect.

If you're interested and at the risk of opening a can of worms ( I won't get involved again) here's the thread I started some time ago, hope you can bear the angst.

http://forums.techguy.org/all-other-...e-11-boot.html

[Stoner]

For the uninitiated it is well to be aware that there ARE problems for many users using Acronis Trueimage.

How many are 'many'?
What was unique about your configuration that caused the problem?