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Re: EFI system partition problem.....

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On 7/29/2011 3:35 PM, Bert Hyman wrote:
> In news:j0v55c$5je$1@dont-email.me BillW50<BillW50@aol.kom>  wrote:
>
>> Acronis True Image (has a 15 day trial version available)
>> http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
>
> Last time I looked, the trial version was fully functional, so if you
> move fast ...
>
> Still, I paid for it and use it for my nightly backups :-)

I bought Acronis True Image 2009 and 2011 and I hate both of them. And 
not too much difference between the two versions actually. Acronis True 
Image for many years has had problems with some USB controllers. Oh they 
backup to any of them just fine. Just when restoring they can't find 
some of the drives. Some others, some days they can see them and 
sometimes they can't. Not good at all.

I also use Paragon products and they are about the same as Acronis True 
Image. Although no USB controller problem. Paragon full backups are 
fine, but incremental backups takes forever (much longer than a full 
backup actually). Acronis True Image is far better for incremental. 
Otherwise not much of a difference.

Nowadays I only use Acronis True Image just for cloning. And Acronis 
True Image can't clone live (under Windows). Although Paragon and 
XXClone can and does. Nowadays I don't make backups, but I clone instead 
and use the clone drives. I have about 5 drives that I rotate.

I didn't think XXClone was going to be too good, but I was surprised how 
well it works and it is only 1.6MB in size. The commercial version will 
also do incremental cloning which is like unheard of. And unlike Acronis 
True Image and Paragon, has nothing running in the background when the 
application isn't running.

-- 
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v3.0
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3

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EFI system partition problem..... agodin10@hotmail.com - 2011-07-28 14:44 -0700
  Re: EFI system partition problem..... Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> - 2011-07-28 21:10 -0300
    Re: EFI system partition problem..... agodin10@hotmail.com - 2011-07-29 09:36 -0700
      Re: EFI system partition problem..... BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-07-29 12:13 -0500
      Re: EFI system partition problem..... wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-07-30 07:18 +0000
    Re: EFI system partition problem..... BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-07-29 15:28 -0500
      Re: EFI system partition problem..... Bert Hyman <bert@iphouse.com> - 2011-07-29 20:35 +0000
        Re: EFI system partition problem..... BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-07-29 17:23 -0500
          Re: EFI system partition problem..... Bert Hyman <bert@iphouse.com> - 2011-07-29 23:20 +0000
            Re: EFI system partition problem..... BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-07-29 18:53 -0500
          Re: EFI system partition problem..... "olfart" <olfart65@excite.com> - 2011-07-30 04:48 -0400
            Re: EFI system partition problem..... "olfart" <olfart65@excite.com> - 2011-07-30 09:05 -0400
              Re: EFI system partition problem..... BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-07-30 11:42 -0500
            Re: EFI system partition problem..... BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-07-30 11:42 -0500
              Re: EFI system partition problem..... "olfart" <olfart65@excite.com> - 2011-07-30 13:33 -0400
                Re: EFI system partition problem..... BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-07-30 13:43 -0500
          Re: EFI system partition problem..... "Esra Sdrawkcab" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2011-07-31 19:57 +0100
            Re: EFI system partition problem..... wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-07-31 23:01 +0000
              Re: EFI system partition problem..... "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2011-08-03 12:01 +1200
  Re: EFI system partition problem..... "RnR" <rnrtexas@gmail.com> - 2011-08-02 08:55 -0500
    Re: EFI system partition problem..... "RnR" <rnrtexas@gmail.com> - 2011-08-02 08:57 -0500

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