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Hi Folks, I like to take full images if my C drive each week. For years I have use Acronis True Image and more recently the 2012 version. The 2012 version has never really worked very well and has caused me lots of problems. Recently my SSD failed and Acronis would not recognise anything and I could not use an image on another SSD or HDD. Anyway, I was thinking of upgrading to the 2014 version. But are there any other options? I'm not after anything fancy, just something that allows me to take manual backup images, create bootable media and works when I need it too incase of a crash of malware or something.
Cheers.
 
Top two recommendations would be:

Macrium Reflect Free Edition; there's a paid version that includes support and a few extra features you probably wouldn't need. You can make 2 different types of boot disks. Choose the "WinPE" type, rather than Linux.

Aomei Backupper; also free
 
I use disk2vhd for creating disk images.

Pros: Totally free. I can easily mount the images in Windows (just a double-click in Windows 8, or through the Disk Management UI in Windows 7) or in a virtual machine.

Cons: Transferring to physical media requires third-party tools.
 
I also really like Macrium Reflect. I bought it so I could have encrypted backups which isn't an option in the free ver.
 
I use R Drive, it is not free and it has many great features. You can virtually mount a drive ISO among many other features.
It has a trial version for 15 days.
 
I use Macrium too. It's easy & reliable. The pay-for version adds automatic scheduling, so you can do your full clone & then have it do incrementals every night. Only snag I've run into is that it doesn't like backing up to a USB-connected 4TB drive, something about a Windows limitation.
 
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