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Acronis True Image 10 Home (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Acronis Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: £39.99
Buy Used: £16.98
You Save: £23.01 (58%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 439
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060076960962
ASIN: B000JQIDB8
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New Genuine disc in CD sleeve . Sealed with unique activation code. Next day dispatch from UK
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| Customer Reviews: Read 28 more reviews...
 Fine for disk cloning January 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having read other comments, I believe the satisfaction heavily depends on how it is used. I've bought it only for disk cloning, and it's never failed. My PC is an IBM ThinkPad X24 with a dockstation, in which a second hard disk is placed. I've tried cloning several times: 30GB->60GB, 60GB->120GB, and 120GB->250GB. The cloning process is very fast; it takes less than 20 minutes to clone a 120GB disk. If you compare with the speed of XCOPY, you'll be amazed. The only problem for me is the location of the cloning menu. I don't use it frequently so it takes some time to find the menu.
Summary: Excellent for cloning. I've never used other functions.
 The proof of the pudding January 16, 2008
I guess backup software is a waste of money - unless you come to need it at which point it becomes worth its weight in gold.
I decided to get backed up as I'm a semi pro photographer with 10s of Gb worth of photographs and the thought of losing them was becoming more and more of a worry.
So about 6 months ago I bought a WD Mybook 250GB external USB drive and TI 10. Its been taking weekly differential backups whenever I remember to leave the PC turned on overnight on a Friday - no dramas or fanfare.
This week my XP installation got totally trashed by a virus and became completely unbootable. I booted from the TI 10 cd and restored the drive from the image taken a week ago. It took 4 nerve-wracking hours but worked perfectly.
All of a sudden it became the best buy I've made since I got my camera!
 Beware, this software may not work! January 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this software in July last year and for a while it worked as expected. In November it started crashing every time I tried to use it. I contacted the help desk and spent a considerable amount of time providing them with diagnostic information. Despite repeated assurances they have not provided a solution and recently have stopped responding to my e-mails.
Simple relaible and functional November 7, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Its easy to setup and run.
fast too
I back up my hard disc in 45 minutes.
The yellow box ghostly thing took the whole night plus.
I have also had to restore once, when software corrupted the system.
Easy und Peasy and did the job.
I would recommend backing up to another old hard drive, dead easy to plug in the PC, just power and the IDE or SATA cable.
Why?
Its faster, HDD are much faster than CD DVD drives (by days)
You can back up the whole drive whilst you have your tea.
Good to do with a new drive, use the old for backup 9when done0 and the program will help you transfer the whole windows setup to the new hard disc as well. (clone)
It worked straight away and took about 2 hours, fully automatically, no hassles.
A new hard drive? under 45 and you get a backup drive, mad not to do it.
Worked for me November 6, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
In summary, my PC got hosed and I recovered my whole c drive with only 10 minutes experience of using this software.
If you want details:
I was on the lookout for a solution that would restore my whole drive or partition in a few clicks if I ever needed. I came across True Image and last week I had a few moments to try it; after a few minutes of poking around I left it backing up my c drive over night.
Two days later I got hit by a virus - hundreds of files were left corrupt or deleted after "fixing" with AVG. I could run windows but loads of applications were broken.
I had all my documents copied to an external drive so my previous solution would be to reinstall Windows XP, all my software (plus all updates), set up internet connections, email etc and copy back my documents - hours or days of work.
Instead I ran up True Image again and once more after a few minutes chose to restore my c drive, all default settings were fine. I gulped, started the process & had to reboot. It predicted a 2 hours to go so I went to bed. Next morning I woke, and my PC was restored to the way it was a few days ago! What a relief!
Update:
I wanted to replace the 40GB hard drive in my wife's laptop with a spare I had that was faster and a lot quieter. I installed True Image, created a boot CD (and tested it would boot to it OK), created a backup to an external USB hard drive, swapped out the internal drive, booted to CD and restored the partition. Process was flawless, smooth and took a few hours, mostly unattended while I was pottering around doing other things.
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