Dell Backup and Recovery Manager

I bought a new Dell Vostro laptop and it came with this program called Dell Backup and Recovery Manager. The laptop is preinstalled with Windows 7 Home, 64-bit.

Anyone know if this thing is any good? I performed a backup with it, but I'm reluctant to test the restore capability since my laptop works fine. I'm not aware of any program out there that backs up Win7-64 perfectly (unless I've missed some of the later talks between Paragon and Acronis).

 

I can't comment on the Dell software.

I use Shadow Protect and am very happy with it. The only gripe I've ever read about it on this message board is the price (not cheap!). I use it on XP and Vista (32 bit), but according to their website, it works with Win 7, 64 bit:

http://forum.storagecraft.com/Community/faq/

 

I use Paragon on Windows 7 64Bit and have absolutely no issues with it. Done a few restores with it all has went fine.

 

Macrium Free will do it.

philby

 

the bultin windows own iimaging software works fine.
control panel,system and security,create a system image or use the setup backup option so it creates images for your automatically.

 

valnar,

Off topic but could you look in Disk Management and let us know which is the System, Active partition? I've looked at a few Win7 Dell Desktops and Win7 is NOT the Active partition. This will make an image restore interesting.