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 enlarge | From: Acronis
Category: Software
List Price: $49.95
Buy New: $29.99
You Save: $19.96 (40%)
New (5) from $29.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  189 reviews
Sales Rank: 129
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.3
MPN: 2229212
Model: 890204002043
UPC: 890204002029
EAN: 0890204002029
ASIN: B000VLZCEW
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Acronis True Image Home V11.0 March 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a truly "Profession Grade" disk imaging program, capable of reliably backing up your hard drives quickly and accurately. In addition, it's supplemental programs help with many other hard disk activities such as cloning, transferring files, replacing or setting up an additional hard disk, or experimenting with new programs. Even though it is extremely flexible and customizable, it is user-friendly enough for a neophyte to handle. I would strongly recommend it for anyone.
 Version 11 is my 3rd upgrade & worth the price to me. March 25, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
While somewhat complex to use, if a hard drive or software catastrophe overtakes your system, Acronis True Image will do exactly what it advertises it will do. It will completely restore your operating system, programs & files to the time and date that you last saved an image of your drive with Acronis. If you have a software failure, Acronis can have your system up in running in minutes. If you have a hard drive failure, you need to find another similar hard drive and then in minutes you can again have a working system. Acronis 11 performs other tasks but this review only addresses one critical issue: full system image backups.
The downside of the program is that the menus are not intuitive and can be confusing and at first, a bit frustrating. You absolutely must create & test the Acronis recovery disk to be sure it works and that this recovery disk and your computer will read the hard drive on which you have saved a disk image. You absolutely must validate each disk image you create and then mount it to test that the saved image files are readable. And you must save complete or updated hard drive images frequently, I do it monthly, so you have the data you need is saved in case you need it.
If your system fails and your saved image is 6 months old, you have lost 6 months of data unless you have saved it on some other restorable media.
If you do the musts listed above, you can breath easy and be confident that all will be well with your software treasure if you system fails.
Like I began, its a bit complex, you need to take time to understand how the Acronis program works. If you blindly go through the steps and don't do the tests, you setting yourself up for completely unnecessary pain and depending on your temeperment, unconsoleable anger.
Two years ago, during a Windows XP upgrade, the drive Master Boot Record on the C: drive was wiped out along with other system files. 10 minutes later using an Acronis disk image, I was up and running, smiling and coming down from high anxiety. Take the time to do the work and Acronis will save what you cannot afford to lose. And of course, there maybe other programs that will do this as well. I know that this one does this one absolutely critical task for me.
 It adequately does the job March 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you can figure out how to make it work; clue--you can back up your files just as easily by copying them to an external HD and it's 10 x less hassle to copy them back when you format. The only useful feature, which you have to find out too late is the clone control button--with the disk in the bay.
If all you want is to schedule file back-ups, go for Nero 8 Ultra. It does this and about 21 other things. For ultimate off-site back-up (houses do burn down and kids will kill your PC); subscribe to Carbonite.
 the good and the bad March 23, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am using this program with Windows XP (SP 2). The backup to an external hard drive and to DVDs was pretty straightforward, but when I tried to create a secure zone with the software, which is the only way you can do a snap restore or use the try and decide feature, it wreaked havoc on my computer, corrupting a multitude of files. The computer was so messed up i had to do a complete restore from my external hard drive- using the backup created by this software. So it is somewhat ironic, but the problems make me wary of sticking with this software, even just for backups. I have emailed the company for support help, it's been a few days and so far no response. Buyer beware, and make sure the first thing you do is creat a backup.
Vista and Acronis do not mix well March 23, 2008
I have used Acronis for the past two years with several XP systems and never experienced a problem. After Vista instructed that I needed Acronis 9.0 I purchased Acronis 10.0, attempted to do a system only back up and found that Vista didn't like that option. After several tries I resorted to backing up the entire computer. Vista has many problems and this one with Acronis just adds to the list.
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