Best paid imaging program ?

[pcslookout]

Unless a free one is as good ? So what is the best paid imaging program right now please ? ty

 

[balloonshark]

Macrium Reflect has free and paid versions. http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

 

[Berryracer]

Macrium Reflect Home Edition (Paid)

The free one is also good, but the paid one gives you the option to add the Macrium Reflect Recovery to your boot options so you won't have to use the Macrium Reflect Rescue CD to boot off it if you ever want to restore an image.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

+3 for Macrium Reflect. I've been using the free version for about a year.

 

[MontyAC]

The free home version of Reflect v6.0 gives you the option to dual boot now. So, no need to put it a rescue disk. You also get to perform differential imaging. It's now almost as good as the paid version.

 

[Berryracer]

The free home version of Reflect v6.0 gives you the option to dual boot now. So, no need to put it a rescue disk. You also get to perform differential imaging. It's now almost as good as the paid version.

Seriously?? that was the only reason I bought a few licenses for the paid version. Then what more does the paid version offer over the free one if the free one can now restore images without the need for the rescue CD?

 

[pcslookout]

I don't know why but I do not like how Macrium Reflect looks. Maybe I will get use to it. Trying the free trial version right now.

I use Acrious True Image 2014 right now on a usb stick which works really well. Acrious True Image 2015 sucks I tried the trial version.

 

[pcslookout]

Have you tried irfan view good image editor

Sorry that is not a hard drive imaging program. I think you have the two mixed up.

 

[MontyAC]

Seriously?? that was the only reason I bought a few licenses for the paid version. Then what more does the paid version offer over the free one if the free one can now restore images without the need for the rescue CD?

The free version can't do incremental backup. I like that they loaded pretty much everything on the new free version 6. I love doing the differential backups to the main one, takes so little time.

 

[Berryracer]

The free version can't do incremental backup. I like that they loaded pretty much everything on the new free version 6. I love doing the differential backups to the main one, takes so little time.

ah I see, thanks for that. I never use anything but a single image after installing Windows + performing all Windows updates so that's not a deal breaker for me. This just makes Macrium Reflect even the free version the best out there.

 

[Berryracer]

I don't know why but I do not like how Macrium Reflect looks. Maybe I will get use to it. Trying the free trial version right now.

I use Acrious True Image 2014 right now on a usb stick which works really well. Acrious True Image 2015 sucks I tried the trial version.

Acronis was great back then when MBR disks were the most used but when GPT disks began showing up on new systems and especially UEFI systems, I was able to backup the GPT partition just fine after buying the additional add-on which allows GPT disks but never succeeded with restoration. always starts and never succeeds. Since then I switched to Macrium Reflect Pro (now called the Home Edition after recently being upgraded to v6) which supports everything under the sun no problem, MBR, GPT, RAID, you name it. Never failed me once.


You can also use the free version of Macrium Reflect which has the same functionality of the paid version but the only difference between paid and free is with the free version, you can create a backup while in Windows just fine, but to restore the backup, you have to create a Macrium Reflect Resecue disk to boot up from it and initiate the restoration. The paid version allows you to add a startup entry to your boot options so when you do want to restore, the system will automatically restart into the rescure environment and start the restoration. Otherwise they're both the same, effective with no bloat like Acronis has now become, cloud storage and backup and so many extra services that come installed with Acronis.

Another thing I don't like about Acronis is it's like a yearly subscription, every year you have to buy a new version or upgrade if you want to benefit from the latest features but with Macrium Reflect you get a free upgrade for 1 year and they don't usually upgrade the main program version often.

 

[bigi]

All are fine and work properly if you know how to use them.

Acronis/Ghost/Macrium are most popular. There are also Drive Image XML, AOMEI Backupper, Paragon.

No need to pay IMO.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I'll throw in another vote for macrium. I've been using it for a few years now and I'm going to end up upgrading to v6 too.