Vista Backup

Hi Guys,

Why would you use (Acronis, or any other Imager) when Vista provides a backup system?

I use XP & have never seen Vista. I'm to teach a class (Vista) backup & restore. I had planned to go about this using a 3rd party imaging program. Help

Rico

 

full back up is only in ultimate. i use it. i used acronis before with xp and it's much better (as most microsoft features, de frag etc, it's a bit basic). for example you cant put the image onto a different size hard drive it has to be identical, i bought larger faster drives for my pc and just got 'one or more of the drives is wrong size (something like that) error, so had to download acronis trial and use that to copy and reimage my system disk.
acronis is much more in depth, and reliable vista back up has failed me once, but worked all other times, acronis uses resources of course.

 

only Business and Ultimate versions have the backup and restore functionality

 

And the other versions, like Basic, Home Premium, are plagued with a recovery system they cannot even fully use !

 

according to the charts i have read alll versions of windows 7 have full imaging program bultin.
btw since not everyone has a windows cd they may not be able to restore the images unless they create a special windows pe cd themselfs.

 

Thanks Guys,

I'' feel comfortable steering them towards Macrium Reflect.

Many Thanks
Rico

 

Rico, why dont you try Clonezilla or Ping, both freeware and very effective, no need to install them, just burn the .iso to cd and run from outside windows.

 

Pushed earlier in these parts by imaging educator, good'ol nod32_9 ....