Manufacturer's Description

Acronis Acronis True Image 10 Home

You've accumulated a lifetime of memories on your home PC, in addition to important personal documents, such as tax returns and resumes, not to mention all the applications you have installed and unique settings for each family member that took countless hours to set up. Acronis True Image 10.0 Home helps makes certain that you are adequately protected.Acronis True Image 10.0 Home creates the exact copy of your hard disk and allows you to instantly restore the entire machine including operating system, applications and all the data in the event of a fatal system crash or virus attack; no reinstallations required! With the new version you also can easily back up your music, video and digital photos, as well as Outlook emails, contacts, calendar, tasks and user settings with just a few mouse clicks! Create an exact copy of your PC for a full backup or backup only your important data and application settings, it's your choice!

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Acronis Acronis True Image 10 Home

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Acronis Acronis True Image 10 Home

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  Reviewed by: drblue

  02-07-08

  Duration of ownership:

  Strengths: - User friendly- Get the job done- Fast

  Weaknesses:- Unreliable- Scheduling is useless

  Overall Evaluation: I've been using Norton Ghost for a long time, and I was never happy with the program. After some search, I found that Acronis True Image is reviewed quite favorably. So, I gave it a try. This is much better than Ghost. It has a better user interface, more intuitive, and faster. I cloned a 200GB laptop drive to a 320GB, and the operation went without any major problem. However, when I tried to clone another drive (250GB), the operation failed. I was forced to reinstall the software and had to start the whole process again. A good news is that it worked at the second try. Overall, this is not a bad software. It gets the job done, and is much better than the competition (Ghost).

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  Reviewed by: mango_310

  12-02-07

  Duration of ownership: 9 Months

  Strengths: imaging and back up capabilities

  Weaknesses:was a little glitchy with Vista but so far nothing that affects the imaging of the computer.

  Overall Evaluation: This product is great if your looking for a software that will back up certain files or if you would like a complete image of your computer for restoring purposes. It's easy to use and think its better than Norton Ghost. Remember, depending on how much data you have on your hard drive you might need a pretty big external drive to back up the compressed image of your computer. But trust me I've already had a catastrophe with my laptop and lost the harddrive. Thanks to the image I saved the previous week I was able to restore my computer as if nothing had happened. It's an essential tool but you must use it regularly to keep the most updated back up.

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  Reviewed by: robsf23

  11-08-07

  Duration of ownership: 45 Days

  Strengths: easy to use interface; full, differential, or incremental backups

  Weaknesses:"specific file" feature may not include all your applications

  Overall Evaluation: I used to use Drive Image 7 (DI7) and bought it in 2003. It's a good program but Norton bought them and doesn't support that program anymore. DI7 worked well for me to do full HD backups and restores (it saved me at least twice before). However, when my HD crashed a few weeks ago, I tried to do a restore using DI7 but I received errors and it wouldn't restore! Since I cannot find any support anywhere, restoring with DI7 was not an option. So I thought about getting an updated image backup and restore program. BTW, though I was not able to do a full restore, I was able to access the crashed drive (as a slave drive) and extract my files before it died! So which image backup program to get? I read bad reviews about Norton Ghost and Norton software in general. So I stayed away from them. However, I heard better things about Acronis True Image. Also my friend recommended it. So I bought this program on sale at CompUSA. I was looking for something with an easy interface, provides scheduled or unattended backups, has incremental backups, and easy restore options. This program fit the bill.The interface is easy to use. You can schedule your backup tasks and frequency. You can also choose your options on compression levels. Of course, the more compression the longer the program takes. This program can do incremental backups too but you must do one full backup first.This version also has a "specific file" backup feature. This basically allows you to backup ONLY the file types you specify. For example, backup ONLY digital pics (jpg), Excel (xls), and (Word) doc files. To me, I didn't find this too useful, since I prefer to back up the whole HD (or incremental backups). Plus the selection of applications is limited to what Acronis provides, which are the popular file formats and extensions. If you want to back up ONLY your Sony Vegas VEG (extension) project files for example, you are out of luck.Restoring: I have not done a restore yet since I have not crashed. However, I did do a TEST restore. I booted from the TI cd and started the restore process. I was able to boot and explore the archive. At this point I didn't restore since I had no restore drive, but it looks like it will work if and when the time comes.There are other new features (like acronis secure zone and quick backup) that I have not to use yet. So overall, this is a great program for HD image backups and restores. Just make sure you do backups at least once a week.

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  Reviewed by: rkengebrethson

  08-31-07

  Duration of ownership: 11 Days

  Strengths: Easy to use. The navigation is easy to use. Good documentation to support the application.

  Weaknesses:Have not seen any.

  Overall Evaluation: This application is very easy to use. The backup function is very easy to use including the incremental back-up function. The interface is clear and easy to use. I recommend this application.

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  Reviewed by: kahawken

  08-13-07

  Duration of ownership:

  Strengths: Ease of use, features, price was right.

  Weaknesses:Think it could be a bit more easy to use for those of us who have not dealt with this type of software.

  Overall Evaluation: I have used this on 3 computers, and it's been a life saver. Easy to use and restore data, as at first I had no idea what I was doing. Backing up to my external hard drive seems to be helpful.

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