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| Thread ID: 56618 | 2005-04-10 09:43:00 | Anyone using Acronis? | paradox (1082) | Press F1 |
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| 343417 | 2005-04-10 09:43:00 | Hi...I need to make an image of my c:\ drive and have been looking at Acronis. If you are using it please let me know how you like it Did you download it with a 56k connection and is there a way to verify the file to make sure it hasn't got broken in the downloading. Any comments much appreciated. Cheers Ken. |
paradox (1082) | ||
| 343418 | 2005-04-11 08:22:00 | Not many takers for this one it seems. I've looked around Acronis website and I can't see what mechanism they provide for downloading and verifying your purchase. Most companies have their own download manager that you use to ensure the product download can continue if broken. I see you have 30 days to complete your download and that you can buy a backup CD of the program which can be posted out. If you are keen on this program (it is certainly cheaper than others), then email your questions to them. I see that DSE have Acronis 7.0 available on clearance sale in certain locations - see here (www.dse.co.nz). They also stock the latest version 8.0 as well - see here (www.dse.co.nz) For your own piece of mind you might like to buy from a store rather than download the product if you are on dialup. Can't comment of the products ease of use or anything, but if you have a google you should be able to find some reviews. Hopefully someone with personal experience with this product might be able to comment as well. :) |
Jen (38) | ||
| 343419 | 2005-04-11 09:52:00 | I use Ghost. An older one now. Do what Jen says - check out some reviews, make sure you read more than one. | pctek (84) | ||
| 343420 | 2005-04-11 10:56:00 | Trialled it... seemed ok... made a decent image of my hard drive, but not so good with OS's on SATA drives I think? Very user friendly, although the time it takes to restore a full OS partition is prob the same time it takes to do a normal install anyway. Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 343421 | 2005-04-11 22:03:00 | Very user friendly, although the time it takes to restore a full OS partition is prob the same time it takes to do a normal install anyway. Lo. Really? Takes 9 minutes for Ghost. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 343422 | 2005-04-12 02:58:00 | Yeah, unfortunately... Mind you, I was restoring from my Sony DRU500A drive with a DVD-R... 4 gb worth of data. Part of the reason I gave up on the product was that it was no faster than doing a clean install in any instance. Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
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