Acronis True Image

Hi,


Is Acronis True Image a good, reliable program to backup my Windows XP (in preparation to make the change to Windows 7) or to clone my harddrive? Thank you for any input you can give me. Happy Holidays.

 

My experience with Acronis True Image Home 2009: backed up my data from an XP Pro machine to external drive, backup showed it was successful and I could access my info on the drive. Made the move to Win 7, installed Acronis on the Win 7 install and when I tried to restore, Acronis said the backup was corrupt. Currently in the process of troubleshooting the problem.

 

Thanks Jeepdriver. I hope you get the problem worked out. I will monitor this thread, and I hope that if you get the problem resolved, you will post its resolution here.

Have a good Holiday Season and New Year.

 

I have used v7, v8, and 2009 to restore several computers.
I always verify my image immediately after I create one.

As a matter of fact, I was in the process of restoring a notebook from an external hard drive when the electricity cut off for a few seconds. The laptop stayed powered up but the external hd went off and that killed the restore. I booted the laptop and all I got was starting DOS and a black screen.
I thought about this for a few days and decided to try a restore again because the notebook as it was, was useless. It worked and the notebook is back to the way it was.
I was scared because when I went to restore, it did not see the C drive. It said it would restore to E. Apparently the internal CD drive was given the letter C and the external was given the letter D so the internal hd, which was for all intents blank, got the letter E. When I rebooted, the internal hd was again called C and the internal optical drive D.

Note: I do not run Window 7 nor Vista so I can't comment how well or poor it runs on those OSes. My experience has been with windows 2000 and XP.

 

Thanks, Plodr. From what you and others have written, Acronis True Image is a good program.

 

ATI is a very good program, but the issue is restoring a backup made with xp to restore using Win 7.
I would google Acronis, find their website and ask them specifically if this will work.

 

I too use Acronis version 8, 10 and 11 without problems on 2000 and XP.

But, has anyone used Acronis 10 or 11 to clone a Windows 2003 server with Active Directory and Exchange 2003? I'm curious because Acronis sells a Server product for around $500 and I can't help but wonder what the difference could be in the cloning process between the Workstation and Server versions.

Any thoughts?