Try acronis free edition for wdc or seagate hard drives. Have been using that since early-nov and it has none of the `full' features of paid version. As a backup and restore, it is fully reliable. Plus, one can delete from the hdd like a normal file and also right click on any image to mount/recover/validate and then acronis opens up. No need to open the program to hunt for the image.
Hi, how can you reach 19GB? I have an university account, but my space is just 2GB+250MB+8GB now. Is there any special trick?
Dropbox never remind you about additional bonus, you have to get the information from the internet or dropbox forum. Now here is some hint. 1. Go to dropbox.com/edu to prove your university account. Then you will see all the bonuses are doubled. Hence, you get 2GB+16GB+250MB 2. Go to dropbox.com/free to get the other 768MB. Until here, you will get 19GB in total. Again, though dropbox can also be used for online storage, its main function is syncing, to replace USB flash disk. So actually you do not need that much space. I have a 2GB account in my office and only used 22.2% of it until now.
Huge fan of the Windows Backup here, cannot confirm the problems that have been mentioned at all. Never had it not recognize a backup, never had it mess one up, never had a failed restore. In fact so far i didnt have any problems with it at all. (Which is extremely rare for a Microsoft product, but in this case i really cannot complain.) Backing up my 50GB C:\ partition (30GB used / 20GB free) takes about 20 minutes. Restoring is way faster, i would estimate a little more than half of the backup time. Extremely positive: This applies even if a backup is stored on and restored from the same physical drive as C:\ (Give or take a minute, which i find an excellent performance. Drive = 320GB WD Black @ IDE/UDMA5.) Reliability thus far: 100% Pros ---- • Built into the OS; no 3rd party drivers, DLLs, autorunning background services, etcetera • 4K-Sector aware; will not mess up the alignment of Advanced Format drives upon restore • Automatically backs up the hidden System Reserved partition (if user has one) along with C:\ • Extremely easy backup process via simple no-frills user-interface • Extremely easy restore process via Win7 DVD (or USB-Flashdrive) and similar no-frills user-interface • Speedy backup and restore Cons ----- • Does not support incremental backups (every backup has to be a full backup) • Requires special preparations if a new backup is not to overwrite a previous backup • Contents of backups can be viewed but not edited (at least not officially) Things with a Pro and a Con side ------------------------------- • Issue: Application does not compress the backups • Pro side (speed): Shorter restore process since no extra time goes into file-decompression • Pro side (reliability): Guaranteed no errors due to archive corruption and the consequent inability to decompress • Con side: An uncompressed backup of a rather large volume requires considerably more harddrive space than a compressed backup* (*Of course this is a very relative con in times where 1TB and 2TB drives are more and more common. Owners of large HDDs are probably glad to trade a few GBs for better speed and reliability.) Conclusion ---------- In my experience Windows Backup appears to be a solid and reliable application, which makes it one of the few Microsoft apps that do an all around good job. I for one have no reason to change, especially since i really like how Microsofts solution is so nicely integrated into the OS itself and its installation medium.
Hi all, Im new here - great reading and an eye opener re: OS's. Ive been using R-Drive image to take snapshots of my partitions periodically. I originally used to use norton ghost but it changed a few years ago and I no longer like it. I sometimes use acronis for its automated features but R-Drive image is great - straight forward which is great for me as im easily confused
now with acronis true image home 2010 if i have dual boot win 7 32bit and 64bit can i do the entire drive in one image file?
It actually depends if your dual systems are in ONE partition, if not, I think you should make two separate backups.
I used Acronis for 3 years but recent versions (2010, 2011) disappointed me. I recently "discovered" Ghost 11 and a nice tool called Onekey Ghost (coded by Chinese). It is fast, simple, straight-to-point type. Just a few click and i got what i need.
I have heard about that, but seems it's not compatible with Windows 7, right? Or maybe I have got the wrong version?
A lot of updating is available now, it seems good to discuss again about the new version of these tools, isn't right?