How Useful is Acronis Trueimage?

[RobDMB]

I keep hearing good things about this software but I am not really sure what its purpose is. Could anyone explain to me what they use it for? thanks, Rob

 

[jdogg707]

Is is used primarily for making disk images of your hard drive and using them for backup and resoration. It is great software!

 

[daveybrat]

Is is used primarily for making disk images of your hard drive and using them for backup and resoration. It is great software!

I second that! :thumbsup:

 

[mc866]

Originally posted by: daveybrat

Is is used primarily for making disk images of your hard drive and using them for backup and resoration. It is great software!

+1
It's very versatile and easy to use. I have it setup to automatically make an image backup of my primary drive each week, so if any problems arise I can just restore the latest image.

 

[StevenYoo]

Originally posted by: RobDMB
I keep hearing good things about this software but I am not really sure what its purpose is. Could anyone explain to me what they use it for? thanks, Rob

yeah, acronis is like norton ghost, but more betterer.

and don't call me Rob.

 

[montag451]

Its lovely.
If it was female, I'd be too shy to ask her out, as she would be too intelligent, too pretty, and she would know what I was thinking,.... oops.
But then again, she would probably be able to do it as well.... hehe

 

[MrBond]

It really is light years ahead of Ghost. I have kind of a unique IDE setup on my PC. This is how my drives are hooked up:

Onboard ATA - DVDROM and DVDRW drive
PCI ATA Controller - 4 IDE drives
Onboard SATA controller - 1 drive

When I added the SATA drive, I wanted to clone my old drive (on the PCI ATA controller) onto it. I tried Ghost and it FUBAR'ed my PC. It would hang at loading ghost and wouldn't let me reboot into Windows. I mamaged to fix it and just kept everything the way it was, adding the SATA drive as a new drive letter.

I used TrueImage and it worked the first time perfectly. It's a far superior product.

 

[kuba]

How does it work if you have 2drives
c: drive 40gigs
d/e/f/ drive (partitioned obviously) 250gigs (mp3z, documents, pictures, etc)
I vaguely remember using an image program (might have been Acronis) saying that i had to delete partitions before running it, and making an image of my C: drive (which is what i was trying to do.
Is it possible to do a c: drive image and save it onto one of my partitioned d/e/f drives?

 

[corkyg]

My primary use is different - I don't do images - I do drive cloning an several drives each week. every machine has a spare, backup/reserve drive ready to do with no restoration needed. TI does that in spades - even external Firewire and SATA and USB drives.

 

[kuba]

Corky what I meant was, I would like to do it for drive cloning, namely, my c: drive.
As a backup, rather than formatting, reinstalling and all that.
So how does it work with drive cloning?
As I said before, it prompted to that in order to save the c: drive image, I needed to delete the partitions on my 250 HD.
Which I didn't understand why

 

[bucwylde23]

I back up my 80 GB C: drive to my 320 GB E: drive all the time. No problems whatsoever, and the 320 GB drive has 2 partitions....

I own Acronis TrueImage as well as Acronis Disk Director and both programs are very very good.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: kuba
Corky what I meant was, I would like to do it for drive cloning, namely, my c: drive.
As a backup, rather than formatting, reinstalling and all that.
So how does it work with drive cloning?
As I said before, it prompted to that in order to save the c: drive image, I needed to delete the partitions on my 250 HD.
Which I didn't understand why

It will clone a single partition or an entire drive including all partitons. It will auto-create a bootable CD - that is what I use - then I select the CLONE function and manually select the source, the target, and whether or not do delete paritions on the target, etc. It is all very controllable.

When it is done, I always replace the original drive with the cloned drive and reboot - that tests it all out. Never had a problem - it always boots.

If you are cloning to different size drives/partitions, it will do it proportionally or "as is." Since my drives are all the same size,I use the "as is."