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| Thread ID: 86723 | 2008-01-26 20:26:00 | Paragon or Shadow Protect? | mzee (3324) | Press F1 |
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| 634233 | 2008-01-26 20:26:00 | I have a few problems with Acronis when dealing with SATA drives and Dual Processors. I wish to use another program, Paragon & Shadow Protect are the contenders. Has anyone had experience with them & which is the best? I believe that Shadow Protect can strip the the drivers which would be very handy when restoring to a new motherboard. Does Paragon have the same feature?:illogical |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 634234 | 2008-01-27 04:03:00 | If you go to a new motherboard, you will have to do a OS reload. Back up your files... But nothing I know of will strip out your old drivers. Acronis works fine for a clone hard drive function. It will not work right with Vista, MS is afraid you will make bootleg copies.. darroll |
darroll (12090) | ||
| 634235 | 2008-01-27 04:11:00 | Never tried the Shadow Protect one. I use Paragon all the time. You can create Recovery Partitions too, ones you can amend later. Acronis had too many problems with different chipsets and sata, and their customer service sucked. Paragons is great, very helpful, prompt responses. Don't insist you use their online help form thingies either. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 634236 | 2008-01-27 05:05:00 | If you go to a new motherboard, you will have to do a OS reload. Back up your files... But nothing I know of will strip out your old drivers. Acronis works fine for a clone hard drive function. It will not work right with Vista, MS is afraid you will make bootleg copies.. darroll Acronis does strip out drivers, it has a add in called Universal restore (*workstation Version), and it does work with vista, I have images with both XP and Vista with no worries, as well as working fine on sata drives - never had a problem, can load a whole OS in around 10-15 minutes. Acronis had too many problems with different chipsets and sata, and their customer service sucked. Personally I've had the exact opposite experience - had a problem once and got a working reply/answer within 30 minutes of emailing them. But this happens sometimes no matter who you deal with. Never tried Shadow Protect , but may look at it. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 634237 | 2008-01-27 10:04:00 | I use the IT version of ShadowProtect all the time. It is great for taking a backup of a customers machine before any work is done on it. It also saves you having to reload the OS when you do a mainboard upgrade or want to transfer all data to a new machine. The only bad thing I have found with ShadowProtect is that you can't restore a backup image, of a HDD, to a smaller HDD or partition than the original size. Never used Paragon before. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 634238 | 2008-02-11 05:43:00 | I have a few problems with Acronis when dealing with SATA drives and Dual Processors. I wish to use another program, Paragon & Shadow Protect are the contenders. Has anyone had experience with them & which is the best? I believe that Shadow Protect can strip the the drivers which would be very handy when restoring to a new motherboard. Does Paragon have the same feature?:illogical Hi Mzee, ShadowProtect can or let you inject new drivers into the OS when doing the HIR (Hardware Independent Restore). It will have no problems with dual processor or SATA drivers, since it uses WinPE as its recovery environment. Further more the Acronis universial restore is a $$$ add on option. Where as the HIR is included as part of the ShadowProtect Product. PC Mag review - www.pcmag.com Check it out www.storagecraft.memberlodge.org |
zapf (13327) | ||
| 634239 | 2008-02-11 05:47:00 | I use the IT version of ShadowProtect all the time. It is great for taking a backup of a customers machine before any work is done on it. It also saves you having to reload the OS when you do a mainboard upgrade or want to transfer all data to a new machine. The only bad thing I have found with ShadowProtect is that you can't restore a backup image, of a HDD, to a smaller HDD or partition than the original size. Never used Paragon before. True. Reason for shrinking of HDD images is because of patent issues. The developers for ShadowProtect used to be with Partition Majic, and the intellectual property is all patented. There are work arounds. 1.) is to use VM Ware to shrink the disk. 2.) is to use the upcoming shrink tool included in Vista. |
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