Acronis True Image 10.0 Home [OLD VERSION]

List Price: $49.99 Discount Price: $19.95

Features:

• Complete backup solution for entire PC and user data
• Create an exact copy of PC for a full backup
• Backup and restore music, video, and pictures
• Backup emails and Outlook data and settings
• Protect PC applications; schedule backups automatically

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Customer Reviews:

Acronis 10 Image Restore Failure [Posted on 2008-01-15]
I am usually the last person to sit down and take the time to write a review of anything. This product let me down in a big way, however, so I feel I should share this for what it is worth to anyone considering this product. I researched backup software a little over two years ago and it came down to Acronis or Norton Ghost. It was a tough choice, but I tilted slightly toward Acronis and hence started with Acronis TrueImage v9. Acronis was forever offering new builds so I kept up with them and upgraded as soon as a new version came out. Finally they quit supporting (via updates) version 9 so I bought version 10 and carried on.

My philosophy with backup software has always been that user friendly and pleasant touchy feely is very nice, but the main thing is that when you need it, the product should work. I did total images regularly along with incremental backups. Although it greatly lengthens the time for backups, I always selected "validate backup", although it is surprisingly not the default. I might add that I am a belt and suspenders type of person so I also use a custom written batch file periodically to capture critical data on my Vista Ultimate Dell computer. It is a good thing I did that, and it may be the only backup I ever use again.

Well just a few short days ago the hard drive in my 3 month old Dell, with Vista Ultimate installed, failed suddenly and totally. It actually disappeared from BIOS as if it literally did not exist. After spending some time to determine what had actually happened I contacted Dell and they said I would have a new hard drive delivered within a few working days. It was currently a Saturday evening and I really did not want to wait for Dell. I like the idea of a second internal hard drive to bring my total to 3 counting the external USB drive, so I went out Sunday morning and bought a new 500 gig hard drive and installed it as a replacement for my failed drive.

Now the fun began. I smugly placed my freshly burned Acronis Bootable Rescue Disk in my DVD drive and booted it. To my chagrin there were three somewhat cryptic choices with no help. One was obviously not applicable, and the one that looked like it was the ideal choice failed to run. Finally I tried it with the 3rd choice and got to a screen that looked like I was getting somewhere. The problem is that it produced choices that worried me since the only copy of my data could conceivably be wiped out if something were to go wrong. At that point I devoted a great deal of time to make another copy of my data using another computer and another hard drive. Now at least I knew that I would not loose my only copy of personal data. Next I spent a lot of time with Acronis "chat" since that is the only way I could get any help. I won't bore you with the details of all that wasted time but suffice it to say it was not a pleasant experience and I felt like there was a lot of passing the buck.

So, now it was me, Acronis, and the machine. I went through all the menu choices and they turned out to be pretty straight forward after I got the nerve to hit that first "Next" button. Now I felt encouraged as the program sat there thinking, but my world pretty well sunk when it quickly came back with "ARCHIVE CORRUPT". Well that was the end of the story. When I created that archive, it completed without errors and flawlessly went through the validation process correctly. The archive remained isolated on an external standalone USB disk drive, so I can think of no reason for this to be corrupt.

In summary you rarely need backup software, but you hate to be without it. You rarely get the chance to actually test it for obvious reasons so you need to choose wisely. Also I recommend you consider separate ways to back up data just in case you prime method fails. As far as Acronis goes, I am through with this product and will start to research others. Good luck with your backup solutions.

Archive corrupt [Posted on 2008-01-21]
It worked great until I actually needed to restore a disk after Windows crashed. 3 hours into a 5-hour restore I got the message "archive corrupt". Now I'm screwed. Previous review pretty well sums it up.

Acronis True Image Home has not found any hard disk drives. [Posted on 2008-05-17]
i have problem with windows and want to restore the entire hard drive. I am very disappointed that Acronis True Image 10 gives me the error:" Acronis True Image Home has not found any hard disk drives." I have 3 hard drives and Acronis TI10 allows me to browse all three for image files but when I clicked restore, it analyzed for awhile then generated the error message again and did nothing. This software doesn't worth the money. It didn't do what it supposes to do.

Acronis 10 worked for me-w XP Pro [Posted on 2008-07-06]
For what it's worth - I've used this program to backup my disk and restore my hard disk image several times, from several different backups. It's always worked fine, whereas Norton Ghost completely failed to work.
As for backup size, I mostly use incremental backup so the backup files are less than a gig. I'm not sure how well the compression works

Acronis [Posted on 2008-08-14]
This is a great product! I have it for 2 external drive back ups. Very user friendly!

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