Personal computing discussed
flip-mode wrote:I haven't tried that one (yet). If you're using it on a bare drive, will it create the partition with the optimal alignment for SSD? I assume the answer is yes, because competing products like the latest edition of Ghost do so.I recommend R-Drive Image over Acronis.
http://www.drive-image.com/
flip-mode wrote:I recommend R-Drive Image over Acronis.
http://www.drive-image.com/
I have this installed on several machines at work - from Windows Server 2003 to Windows XP to Windows 7 - it works on all of them. It's minimal bloat, allows images to be saved over the network, allows specifying number of images to keep, and other stuffs. There's a 14-day trial period if you want to give it a try.
But I haven't tried Acronis in years. Year after year I wasn't satisfied with their product until I just stopped looking. Maybe it is worth another look at this point.
wingless wrote:Acronis True Image 2012 is the alpha and omega of cloning. Heck, I use the 2009 version at m job and it is brilliant.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/?utm_expid=4274314-6&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acronis.com%2Fhomecomputing%2F
JohnC wrote:There's an absolutely free version available here: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx though it has some limitations compared to full versions (such as no support for GPT and Dynamic disks).
tpaulsen wrote:And it has the requisite settings to align partitions correctly for SSD (see Step 5 here). I'll be giving this a try, thanks.JohnC wrote:Hmm free non-trial even better. Ill download it tonight and mess around with it.There's an absolutely free version available here: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx though it has some limitations compared to full versions (such as no support for GPT and Dynamic disks).
AbRASiON wrote:How's Clonezilla for aligning SSD's and that whole 4kb thing or whatever it was?
MadManOriginal wrote:Absolutely. I don't think Microsoft was aiming to make a power user app, but just wanted to give the basic capability, and I MS has my gratitude for that.Can I just say that Windows options for this are OK for every day use but kind of poop at the same time for power users and the anal retentive (I would fall into both categories )
Talking about Windows 8 here...the old 'Windows 7 File Recovery' option for System Image doesn't seem to be an actual drive image. Windows 8 'Windows 7 File Recovery' is not a true disk image. 'Windows Backup' solely for file versions is great. Get another program if you want to do true disk imaging for backup and restore.
flip-mode wrote:Talking about Windows 8 here...the old 'Windows 7 File Recovery' option for System Image doesn't seem to be an actual drive image. Windows 8 'Windows 7 File Recovery' is not a true disk image. 'Windows Backup' solely for file versions is great. Get another program if you want to do true disk imaging for backup and restore.
Um, I'm not sure because I haven't tried it myself yet - maybe I'll go try it after posting this, but I think you can do a true image with Windows 8. Look at this here, which comes from the link that Ryu posted:
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/u ... covery.png
You can see over there on the left that there is the option to "Create a system image". Now, having not played with it myself, I don't know if you have to do this manually every time or if you can make the image a part of the scheduled backup, but regardless, I think the capability to make a true disk image is still there in Windows 8.
MadManOriginal wrote:Can just do a quick format on the target partition before applying the "image"?Yeah, that's what I used. I was just irked that there were still files and folders on the C:\ drive after using the image that weren't there when the image was created. The computer configuration was correct, the software was no longer listed in add/remove programs and so on, so it seems like it restored the OS just as it was, just not the exact drive image. I don't think I did it wrong