Is Backup and Recovery 10 compatible with System Backup 2010?

[DoktorSteve]

I downloaded the free edition of Backup and Recovery 10 on Thursday last week. I made a backup to my USB drive. It looked OK but I thought that I would try System Backup 2010 so I downloaded that on Friday - and made a backup. I used the PC on Saturday with no problems. Today - Monday - my PC refuses to boot into XP. THe screen stops with the cursor in the top left corner.
I revovered using the image from SB2010 and ran it for a few hours. When I powered up in the afternoon I was back to the black screen with the cursor. I loaded the the SB2010 image again with the same result i.e. the PC ran until I tried rebooting. The third time I loaded the BR10 image. That is running and rebooting OK. I have now bought Hard Disk Manager 2009 and I am concerned that this might all fall apart again.
Do I need to deinstall BR10 before I load HDM2009?
Could there be a conflict with Kaspersky Internet Security 2009?

[Paragon_Tommy]

Hello DoktorSteve,

Neither backup utilities should have affected your computer. It's possible that somehow the MBR or partition flags were changed by accident. The data shouldn't have been affected and a few quick steps with the CD could bring the computer back up.

Since you have HDM, create a recovery CD, Tools > Recovery Medial Builder.

When you boot into the recovery CD, make sure your operating system is active and not hidden as well update the MBR.

[DoktorSteve]

I thought that the MBR must be damaged somehow. I wound back to the point before I installed SB and I am quite happy to live without it.
SB might be OK for my Mum but it is not for me! The lack of control and the difficulty in stopping a backup after it had started was so annoying. Was it designed by Germans?

I still have the faulty image on a second drive, which I bought to test the recovery, so i might try to make it bootable with the HDM recovery CD as you suggested.

[DoktorSteve]

Am I being picky here?
In HDM 2009, Restore files just opens the Restore Wizard which allows me to restore whole disks or partitions so I cannot restore individual files.
In B&R 10 Free, Restore from selected archive opens a similar looking Restore Wizard but I can now open the tree structure of the archived drive and choose individual files.
Rather glad that I have both installed!
Is that something that I can expect to work in HDM 2010?

[Paragon_Tommy]

You can expect HDM 2010 to include some of the newer features and fixes that you have seen in the recent programs such as Backup & Recovery 10 Suite, System Backup, Drive Backup 10 and etc.

[DoktorSteve]

Great
Cheers Tommy - that should be an excellent product.