Hard Drive Image Software Help Neeeeded !

[Street Hawk]

Hiya Guys,

for a couple of years now i have been using Acronis True Image software to take Images of hard drives of friends & familys computers i have re-formatted before in the past. it just saves me alot of time when it comes to wiping their machine & re-installing all the software etc including my computer as well.

Problem i have is that the each time i try to restore a image now it throws back a error at me each time basically sayin the Image is corrupt! when its worked before in the past & just decides when it wants to work really.

So im lookin for a New Imaging Software to use that is basically Reliable!!! any recommendations at all ????

Now, i have alot of images that are currently in the Acronis True Image V.10 format and i want to be able to find software that is compatible in restoring that file type too. does anyone know of such a program & have used one that is RELIABLE most importantly as this is driving me mad just now!

I am not Keen on Using Norton Ghost as i think its just Shite! to be quite honest.. so any idea's other than that im egar to hear about it!

Thanks in advance guys...

Street.

[ManofScience]

Honest, use Ghost. it's on Hiren's bootCD.

u can split the images into chunks (650mb to fit on CD's) or even burn straight to DVD's. it's such a great tool and we used to use it for years at work imaging 100's of machines every year ( i work at a uni) - we know use altiris for remote management

[dctyper]

Hiya Guys,

for a couple of years now i have been using Acronis True Image software to take Images of hard drives of friends & familys computers i have re-formatted before in the past. it just saves me alot of time when it comes to wiping their machine & re-installing all the software etc including my computer as well.

Problem i have is that the each time i try to restore a image now it throws back a error at me each time basically sayin the Image is corrupt! when its worked before in the past & just decides when it wants to work really.

So im lookin for a New Imaging Software to use that is basically Reliable!!! any recommendations at all ????

Now, i have alot of images that are currently in the Acronis True Image V.10 format and i want to be able to find software that is compatible in restoring that file type too. does anyone know of such a program & have used one that is RELIABLE most importantly as this is driving me mad just now!

I am not Keen on Using Norton Ghost as i think its just Shite! to be quite honest.. so any idea's other than that im egar to hear about it!

Thanks in advance guys...

Street.

i used this a few weeks ago and it worked perectly! have you tried uninstalling and re installing it?

[caveman_nige]

there is both ghost and acronis on the hiren boot cd...

Why not try it and see if they help..

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/f90/hiren-bootcd-26544/

Partition tools on the Cd are:

Partition Magic Pro 8.05 Best software to partition hard drive

Acronis Disk Director 10.0.2160 Popular disk management functions in a single suite

Paragon Partition Manager 7.0.1274 Universal tool for partitions

Partition Commander 9.01 The safe way to partition your hard drive,with undo feature

Ranish Partition Manager 2.44 a boot manager and hard disk partitioner.

The Partition Resizer 1.3.4 move and resize your partitions in one step and more.

Smart Fdisk 2.05 a simple harddisk partition manager

SPecial Fdisk 2000.03v SPFDISK a partition tool.

eXtended Fdisk 0.9.3 XFDISK allows easy partition creation and edition

GDisk 1.1.1 Complete replacement for the DOS FDISK utility and more.

Super Fdisk 1.0 Create, delete, format partitions drives without destroying data.

Partition Table Editor 8.0 Partition Table and Boot Record Editor

EASEUS Partition Master 3.5 Partition Resize/Move/Copy/Create/Delete/Format/Convert, Explore, etc.



Image Tools are:

ImageCenter 5.6 (Drive Image 2002) Best software to clone hard drive

Norton Ghost 11.5 Similar to Drive Image (with usb/scsi support)

Acronis True Image 8.1.945 Create an exact disk image for complete system backup and disk cloning.

Partition Saving 3.71 A tool to backup/restore partitions. (SavePart.exe)

COPYR.DMA Build013 A Tool for making copies of hard disks with bad sectors

DriveImageXML 2.02 backup any drive/partition to an image file, even if the drive is currently in use

Drive SnapShot 1.39 creates an exact Disk Image of your system into a file while windows is running.

Ghost Image Explorer 11.5 to add/remove/extract files from Ghost image file

DriveImage Explorer 5.0 to add/remove/extract files from Drive image file

WhitSoft File Splitter 4.5a a Small File Split-Join Tool

Express Burn 4.26 CD/DVD Burner Program to create and record CDs/DVDs, also create/burn .iso and .nrg images

Smart Driver Backup 2.12 Easy backup of your Windows device drivers (also works from PE)

Double Driver 1.0 Driver Backup and Restore tool

DriverBackup! 1.0.3 Another handy tool to backup drivers

[Street Hawk]

Hi guys,

ok i have Hirens Boot CD, not tried it yet but ill give it ago, only trouble is.. i still want to be able to use the images that are already Stored on my hard drive, with another image program, where do i stand on that ?
as the images with Acronis are .tib extention has that been known to work with any other imaging software as i have lost my confidence with using Acronis. need it to me proper reliable. thanks in advance.

[caveman_nige]

i would guess that .tib files will only be useable with acronis... It is a very good product and I am surprised you are having issues with it.. I would be mored inclined to suggest that your Acronis installation is now dicked and the save images also..

Have you had a read through the acronis help site... Knowledge Base

[Street Hawk]

Well, i have always used Acronis, but am have drama's with it now & its headin in the direction for a change. it drives me mad when i can't reload a image & waste hours tryin to source the problem & come up with nothing.. kinda puts me in a bad mood after.. because a computer has got the better of me haha.

I have downloaded Ghost 14 so i might try that.. i also have a couple of other more recent versions of Acronis, but i am reluctant to use it considering the problems its presented to me on many occasions.

any links to a known good working Acronis.. please feel free to let me know & ill give it another go, but i wont be holding my breath.

[caveman_nige]

acronis links

have a try with these links.. I have not tested it myself... if the end app works let me know and we can add them to the software section..

http://rapidshare.com/files/127710645/Acronis.True.Image.Home.v11.0.8101.Incl.Keymaker-CORE.part1.rar    
http://rapidshare.com/files/127711066/Acronis.True.Image.Home.v11.0.8101.Incl.Keymaker-CORE.part2.rar

[stevbull]

thanks for the information

[jaxun]

I've been using an enterprise version of Acronis for the last 2 years. Just last month I tried to verify, then restore a .tib image that someone brought to me. I too got the corrupt image message. This was solved when I figured out that this particular .tib image was made with a home version of Acronis. I then restored successfully with the same home version that the backup was made with. A rule of thumb is that you should generally try to backup and restore with the same version of Acronis. Definitely don't mix home and enterprise versions. I hope this helps someone.

[Width_of_a_Circle]

I have used Acronis for years and now have Acronis 2010 latest one out and the difference is astounding, the backup speed is fantastic, lots of bugs removed .
and always validate your backups after imaging them this is good advice.

[Adi1980xx]

Use HD Clone its one of the best

HDClone - Harddisk Copy, Harddisk Backup, Harddisk Rescue!

[shAGGie]

thumbs up for acronis true image, nothing is better!

[gtpilot]

Have acronis that came with an apricorn universal adapter kit and its been the best way to backup, restore, mirror, etc. I did have to repair the installation once though. I would think the error is more likely a fault with the backup storage medium (error on hd). If there is a problem with the storage copy try separating the storage files or perhaps update your Apricorn software.

[N3lson]

There's always Clonezilla - 100% free & regularly updated.
Runs from CD, with a textmode interface.

Clonezilla