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| Thread ID: 134802 | 2013-08-15 04:24:00 | Imaging programs that run from 'inside' win | 1101 (13337) | Press F1 |
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| 1351277 | 2013-08-15 22:51:00 | Sorry buddy, its a long way from the best ;) Had a few times where people have actually purchased shadow protect, some had read previous posts in this forum, and they have found the exact same thing I did when I re-tried it last year. Which is -- While it does make a image of the whole drive and there are a lot of options,you cant actually put back all partitions in one go. You have to manually create partitions if its more than one. ( this was actually confirmed last time when asked) A OS like W7 while it images the whole drive it wont allow you to put it all back in one go, the hidden partition and the main OS partition, or various other partitions as in HP Compaqs, which have several, instead theres a check box you tick to allow it to fix the bootup, other wise it wont boot after putting back the image. I tried it last year, so unless they have fixed that problem, its not actually doing the re-imaging back as some other programs do. Just had a look on storagecrafts site, and back on 27th December last year their own tech guys STC_Stephen said its a feature they are looking into : www.storagecraft.com Other programs, both free and paid can already do this. Yeah, we know you havent had the best experience with Shadow Protect WT, however I concur with cyabro, shadow protect is enterprise class, the rest arent even close.. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1351278 | 2013-08-15 22:59:00 | The 'free' WD/seagate versions of acronous Ive tried, within win actually rebooted the PC & did the image before Win loaded again . Seems the best way. macrium: havnt had any success with this, 1 image simply didnt work (imaged HD wouldnt load Win) , the other had some 'issues' with Win But using macrium to clone a HD that wasnt the Win HD worked perfectly . Im assuming that these types programs need VSS to be working correctly for for imaging process to work . That may be one of the issues? |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1351279 | 2013-08-16 03:11:00 | Yeah, we know you havent had the best experience with Shadow Protect WT, however I concur with cyabro, shadow protect is enterprise class, the rest arent even close.. Enterprise class maybe, but if a average home user cant use it its no point. Even their own tech people say its a feature thats not in there at the moment ( read the link if you didn't) -- time to come off the ivory cloud for a moment and remember its not perfect. No program is, BUT if they want home users to use the software they have to make it so it does everything they want without having the expertise of a network admin or service tech. Im assuming that these types programs need VSS to be working correctly for for imaging process to work . That may be one of the issues? Most of the imaging programs use WinPE, or some other variant of their own software. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1351280 | 2013-08-16 03:20:00 | Enterprise class maybe, but if a average home user cant use it its no point. Even their own tech people say its a feature thats not in there at the moment ( read the link if you didn't) -- time to come off the ivory cloud for a moment and remember its not perfect. No program is, BUT if they want home users to use the software they have to make it so it does everything they want without having the expertise of a network admin or service tech. Most of the imaging programs use WinPE, or some other variant of their own software. True, it probably isn't really aimed at the average home user however we do have a number of clients using it at home and they love it. Most of our ShadowProtect users are businesses though running it on their server. On a side note Microsoft no longer allow 3rd party vendors to use or supply the WinPE any more. If you want to use it as part of a recovery disk now you have to download the WinPE stuff from Microsoft and create it yourself. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1351281 | 2013-08-16 03:54:00 | True, it probably isn't really aimed at the average home user however we do have a number of clients using it at home and they love it. Most of our ShadowProtect users are businesses though running it on their server. On a side note Microsoft no longer allow 3rd party vendors to use or supply the WinPE any more. If you want to use it as part of a recovery disk now you have to download the WinPE stuff from Microsoft and create it yourself. Yeah noticed MS no longer allow WinPE to third party. Don't get me wrong, the only thing I don't like about shadow Protect is the point it cant put back multiple partitions automatically. If you have a drive with lets say 5 partitions, and need to replace the drive,it would be a PITA having to manually create all five then drop back each partitions image one at a time - programs like Active@ tick one box and the whole lot can go back in one go. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1351282 | 2013-08-16 10:03:00 | What is the logic behind the WinPE restriction? | Greven (91) | ||
| 1351283 | 2013-08-16 22:22:00 | What is the logic behind the WinPE restriction? They're Microsoft, there probably is no logic. |
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