It just didn't work.
Written: Apr 17 '04 (Updated Apr 17 '04)
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Pros: None
Cons: It didn't work. Period.
The Bottom Line: It didn't work for me. Looks like it would be a good product, if it only worked.
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| winterwaves's Full Review: ACRONIS True Image 7 |
After looking at Norton Ghost 2003 and Drive Image 7 and coming across a lot of bad reviews for those products, I decided Acronis True Image would be the ticket.
I purchased this product via instant download. Tried to do my first backup -- to write a complete disk image of drive C to my destination hard drive E -- and I got the error: ""General operation error on partition C: code 33 'Unable to create volume snapshot'." This error happened immediately, each time I tried. I tried to choose the destination of D instead of E, and got the same error.
After two months of communication with Acronis tech support, during which time they escalated the problem to their developers, they still couldn't figure out a solution for me. I finally got a refund on the product.
My system is a Pentium 4 with a 36GB WD Raptor as drive C, a SATA Western Digital drive as drive D, and two SATA WD1200JB drives in a RAID 0 array as drive E. I'm running Windows XP. Nothing particularly out of the ordinary.
It's too bad, because now I again don't have a reliable imaging solution, and I am feeling the need to have one. Ghost 2003 (the personal edition, as opposed to the corporate Ghost product) is complete crap. It can't even reliably recognize NTFS partitions, and it can't even reliably WRITE disk images to NTFS partitions (it's better if your destination drive is FAT -- but I have no FAT-formatted hard drives). And Drive Image 7 doesn't work well with Windows XP Service Pack 1, or so I hear.
So here I sit, without a good disk imaging backup solution.
Maybe Acronis version 8 will fix the problem.
Recommended:
No
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