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True Image v8Snagging.org In association with Amazon.co.ukOnline Shop | Property Guides | Kitchen & Home | Garden Tools | Power Tools | Consumer Electronics Get the Snagging Checklist Here!  Brand: Acronis Inc. EAN: 5060076960337 Label: Acronis Inc. Manufacturer: Acronis Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Platform: Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98 Publisher: Acronis Inc. Release Date: December 02, 2004 Studio: Acronis Inc. Related Items: Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Essential to check every backupI find many of my backup files both on internal disk drives and on external USB disk are unreadable. I started checking the images with Acronis' own "Check Image" feature and found most of them reporting "The image archive is corrupted". Unless you check every archive after creating it, you may find that backup is useless. I now use Ghost 9. Rating: - OK for copying disk images, but not for backup/restoreIt performs adequately when copying partitions or making image files of disk partitions. In a true need case, the software is useless. Have had no end of pain with the 'Acronis secure area' which is supposed to be a reserved area of hard disk that the o/s cant touch, in which to store files. Unfortunately, neither can Acronis, with any reliability - image writes fail, with no explaination! Overcoming this by installing a second hard drive (although I assume simply partitioning a single drive would also work) Restoring from a backup to recover from corrupted system files proved impossible. The main disk being 'in use' when it's resore from image was requested, Acronis asks for a re-boot. Which fails. Trying to boot from an Acronis boot disk, either 6 floppys or a CD-R it created also fail - the boot-up terminating with fatal errors - attempt to terminate idle thread - something vaguly Linuxy, and nothing that gets you to a state where you can restore the image. Eventually reduced to removing both drives, and restoring one from the image on the other when fitted to another machine. Rating:  - Acronis is highly underratedThis software has saved me on more than one occasion at work and at home. It is easy to use and works!!! I have used several Acronis products now and have no complaints whatsoever. Rating:  - Doesn't like peripherals, but Backup is goodWhilst the backup seems good, fast and simple to use, I lost access to my external card-reader for as long as Acronis TrueImage 8 was installed. Solution - uninstall & all back to full functionality. I have tried several setting changes, but after about 6 hours fighting it I took the backup & then uninstalled. I'm no geek who wants to go modifying the registry files, so I'm not going to be using this any longer than it takes me to get another product (ie Norton Ghost) - hoping that this is fully compatible. Rating:  - Good product, mostly!I bought Acronis Disk Image 8, having had some bad experiences with Norton Ghost 9. Certainly Acronis is quicker, simpler to use and understand, although it doesn't have the same breadth of features as Ghost (at least in this version 8). But if you simply want to make a hard disk image back-up, then Acronis is hard to beat. Like Ghost, Acronis still has issues with some CD/DVD drives, burning software and media. In particular it can report some DVD back-ups as corrupted whilst verifying them, despite the fact that the actual DVD burning process went fine. I found that using good quality DVD media does reduce or eliminate this problem. The same was true for a friend's system also using Acronis Disk Image 8. However, the fact it happens at all, doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the back-ups. The DVD's may actually be fine and would work, but you just can't be 100% certain. Better to transfer back-up images onto another hard disk, if you can.  Try searching the Internet for "True Image v8" or Ebay for "True Image v8". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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