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Acronis True Image Now Free For Western Digital Drives.

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Harvey

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Acronis True Image has long been available free for Seagate and Maxtor drives as part of their disk tools. Now, Western Digital has joined the game and offers a version for their drives. In both cases, I believe at least one of the drives in the chain must be from the company offering the program (WD or Seagate/Maxtor).

Most important, unlike older versions of Norton Ghost, which I love and still use on my XP machines, it will work with Vista and probably with Windows 7 when it's released, this month.

Acronis True Image for Western Digital drives:

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Acronis True Image for Seagate and Maxtor drives:

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Manual
 
Excellent!

(I already own Acronis True Image 10 Home; is this newer than what I already own?)

 
Originally posted by: mshan
Excellent!

(I already own Acronis True Image 10 Home; is this newer than what I already own?)
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Yep. It's ver. 11.

< Nigel from Spinal Tap voice >

That's one more than 10! :Q

< / Nigel from Spinal Tap voice >

:laugh:
 
Last time I looked, this isn't the full version of Acronis, it it crippled compared to the normal version that Acronis sells...

 
Originally posted by: Elixer

Last time I looked, this isn't the full version of Acronis, it it crippled compared to the normal version that Acronis sells...
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As I posted, it requires one of the drives in the chain to be from the manufacturer providing the program. If it's freaking FREE, and it works to clone your drive, there's not much reason to complain. 😎
 
Ya, I've used it, and it is awesome. It worked perfect on my lappy swap to a WD Black drive. Very easy to use too :thumbsup:.
 
Unless they have changed this since I last checked (about a year ago) it is a crippled version. Most importantly to me, it doesn't support incremental backups, only full ones.
 
Originally posted by: Thump553

Unless they have changed this since I last checked (about a year ago) it is a crippled version. Most importantly to me, it doesn't support incremental backups, only full ones.
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That's all I need. I can back up files to a CD or a flash drive. Having a way to restore a complete installation or swap out a cloned drive for one that failed is priceless.

I keep two sequential Ghost backups and alternating between backups. I Ghost my drive at least once a week and before installing any new program, and I can be fearless if it or some virus corrupts the entire drive. In a worst case emergency, such as a fire, the backup drive is one of the first things I'd want to grab. I can rebuild everything else from there.

When your life is on your hard drive, my basic rule is, never allow anything to fscl up your drive more than you can un-fsck it.

And it's FREE! 😀
 
I've switched from Ghost to TrueImage and am not disappointed. Works in XP, Vista and Win7. This is a limited version to whatever the HD mfg is. However, if you find that you like it consider purchasing the full version for the features 🙂
 
Originally posted by: The0ne

I've switched from Ghost to TrueImage and am not disappointed. Works in XP, Vista and Win7. This is a limited version to whatever the HD mfg is. However, if you find that you like it consider purchasing the full version for the features 🙂
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Absolutely. And thank them for the lovely show and tell that informed you about it. :thumbsup:
 
I grabbed this since I've got all WD drives in my computer now. I quickly ran into an issue where I have Win 7 on a 150 gb partition on a Velociraptor 300 and the other 150 partition is empty. I have an XP install on a Raptor 150 in the same system and I thought I'd use TrueImage to clone that drive to the empty 150 partition on my Velociraptor 300 and move my Raptor 150 to another computer. But TrueImage won't let me select anything on the Velociraptor to Clone to. Will Ghost allow me to do that?
 
Originally posted by: Harvey
Originally posted by: Thump553

Unless they have changed this since I last checked (about a year ago) it is a crippled version. Most importantly to me, it doesn't support incremental backups, only full ones.
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That's all I need. I can back up files to a CD or a flash drive. Having a way to restore a complete installation or swap out a cloned drive for one that failed is priceless.

I keep two sequential Ghost backups and alternating between backups. I Ghost my drive at least once a week and before installing any new program, and I can be fearless if it or some virus corrupts the entire drive. In a worst case emergency, such as a fire, the backup drive is one of the first things I'd want to grab. I can rebuild everything else from there.

When your life is on your hard drive, my basic rule is, never allow anything to fscl up your drive more than you can un-fsck it.

And it's FREE! 😀
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Nothing wrong with free, that's for sure, and this is a great product. But my point was it would take you a whole lot less time to do incremental backups to your full backups than to redo a full backup everytime. Definately grab this and use if if you are eligible, but if you can find the full Acronis cheap, splurge for it.

BTW Harvey, you are a real belt and suspenders type of guy 😀.

 
Originally posted by: Thump553
Originally posted by: Harvey
Originally posted by: Thump553

Unless they have changed this since I last checked (about a year ago) it is a crippled version. Most importantly to me, it doesn't support incremental backups, only full ones.
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That's all I need. I can back up files to a CD or a flash drive. Having a way to restore a complete installation or swap out a cloned drive for one that failed is priceless.

I keep two sequential Ghost backups and alternating between backups. I Ghost my drive at least once a week and before installing any new program, and I can be fearless if it or some virus corrupts the entire drive. In a worst case emergency, such as a fire, the backup drive is one of the first things I'd want to grab. I can rebuild everything else from there.

When your life is on your hard drive, my basic rule is, never allow anything to fscl up your drive more than you can un-fsck it.

And it's FREE! 😀
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Nothing wrong with free, that's for sure, and this is a great product. But my point was it would take you a whole lot less time to do incremental backups to your full backups than to redo a full backup everytime. Definately grab this and use if if you are eligible, but if you can find the full Acronis cheap, splurge for it.

BTW Harvey, you are a real belt and suspenders type of guy 😀.
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I beg to differ...free is bad. I just spent the last 5 hours un-hosing my completely hosed system. I installed the Acronis for WD on my WIN7 system and it went through the worst BSOD I;ve ever seen --- I did a web search for BSOD and WIN7 and ACRONIS and found some others who have had that SH.......T moment after installing Acronis downloaded from the above link. None oftheusual tricks works, I had to completely wipe the drive after slaving it and copying the contents. That's a wicked nasty program. For kicks, I installed it on a backup win7 system and I got the same result. Must be the water here. Its a shame - I love Acronis stuff. I'll go retail.
 
Originally posted by: Greg04
I installed the Acronis for WD on my WIN7 system and it went through the worst BSOD I;ve ever seen
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Yeah, the site even says Win7 support... oh wait it doesn't. Win7, despite its similarities to Vista, it's not Vista. You installed it at your own risk, don't blame Acronis, or the WD version of it.
 
Nice. All of my drives are WD and am about to image and retire my old boot drive, an 80 GB IDE clunker from 5 years ago. This will help.
 
Excellent post. Thanks OP.

I had always sworn by DOS Ghost OS partition back-ups and restores until Vista, when I switched to True Image 11. True Image has a simple interface and is a great value... and if you are able to make use of these manufacturer specific versions, free is even greater.
 
This free version might best be used as a bootable CD for doing imaging and cloning stuff. This is especially true if you are using Windows 7.

Making an image file of your primary operating system partition is a good way to do backups. I also make images just prior to doing something which I think might screw up my system. With hard drives so big, there is no reason you can't find a place to store an image of your primary OS partition. This is one reason I store big data files, like video and ISO files, on a separate drive, not on my primary OS drive.
 
Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider
Thanks Harvey. Now all I have to do is figure out how to back up 5 drives and 4TB.
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Here's a start. 1.5 TB SATA 2 HD for $80. 🙂

One per customer. Brand not given so I don't know if either free version will work with it. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Mday
Originally posted by: Greg04
I installed the Acronis for WD on my WIN7 system and it went through the worst BSOD I;ve ever seen
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Yeah, the site even says Win7 support... oh wait it doesn't. Win7, despite its similarities to Vista, it's not Vista. You installed it at your own risk, don't blame Acronis, or the WD version of it.
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Just a stab in the dark here...you're not a psychologist are you? And your friends are all men - or engineers? What I could have used here was, "Jeez, that sucks!" That's what the wimps call "empathy statements".

But you're right, I should have looked before I lept.
 
Originally posted by: Harvey
One per customer. Brand not given so I don't know if either free version will work with it. 😛
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Since that drive is a Samsung, no, neither one of the free Acronis versions will work. (Unless you also have a Seagate or WD drive installed too.)

 
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: Harvey
One per customer. Brand not given so I don't know if either free version will work with it. 😛
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Since that drive is a Samsung, no, neither one of the free Acronis versions will work. (Unless you also have a Seagate or WD drive installed too.)
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Thanks for the update. The brand wasn't given on frys.com when I searched for the SKU, and I haven't had time to drop by a store. For $80, that's its own hot deal. 😉
 
Originally posted by: Mday
Originally posted by: Greg04
I installed the Acronis for WD on my WIN7 system and it went through the worst BSOD I;ve ever seen
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Yeah, the site even says Win7 support... oh wait it doesn't. Win7, despite its similarities to Vista, it's not Vista. You installed it at your own risk, don't blame Acronis, or the WD version of it.
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I've been using it for xp, vista and win7 (RC1 to 7600) with no issues whatsoever. Not one BSOD...yet. Get the retail, you won't regret losing your "data." It's really not worth it.
 
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