Re: Drive Imaging Software

Jeff Gaines, having carefully considered all the angles, harangued us with the following:
Does anybody here use drive imaging software that they can recommend?

I am about to do a clean install of XP on my main PC and even though I have got it pretty organised it's a pain because I have several projects on the go that I would rather be doing.

I think I should take the advice I've seen in here and take an image of the drive after it's installed so I can do a quick restore in the future.

I've been using Acronis 'True Image 10' for backups for some time now. It will create whole-drive images or backup whatever files/folders you want. Mine does a scheduled full backup (drive image) every Sunday evening to my WD external hard-drive and then incremental backups every evening through the rest of the week. The incremental backups just make note of any changes since the previous evening. This afternoon I had my first chance to try out how effective it is. I 'lost' all three partitions on my internal hard drive one of which was the Mesh hidden recovery partition (entirely my fault but I'm not going to admit how it happened :)). Anyway I just booted from the Acronis recovery CD and had everything recovered from yesterday evenings backup (including the hidden partition) inside 30 minutes. There is an option with Acronis to do what they call a 'snap' restore which allows you to get back up and running within minutes and then use the PC while Acronis is still restoring it (how do they do that?), but I didn't try it.

Anyway, I'm well pleased and would highly recommend Acronis True Image.

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