Need advice - Terabyte BING/IFD

I've seen the manual. It's not 100 pages of usefull info and it has alot of pictures too.
ShadowProtect looks like ATI, same userfriendliness, clear menus and guided by wizards. What more do you need ? $70.
Of course, the programming is most probably better than ATI, I can't backup 19gb in 5 minutes like Peter.

 

i would say the shadow protect desktop interface is easier to use.
the main options are backup and restore on the main menu.
on the side menu it has the mount image button.
the interface from booting from cd is just a different colour.
you shouldnt need to use the manual to use the product
lodore

 

A little secret... I glanced at it but didn't actually read the SP manual either...

 

I can't say anything about that, until I used it myself.
The only thing I know for sure, is that BING/IFW/IFD was much more difficult to use. Keep in mind that this was my very first contact with Image Backup softwares, I never used them before.
After all Image Backup shouldn't be difficult unless the developpers make it difficult like in BING/IFD/IFW.

 

I downloaded the trial. Burned DVD, but also installed BING to my hd successfully.

Worked with partitions. (Resized, deleted, wiped, renamed...) I can tell you this is a great partition tool.

I backed up the EMBR.

Created image of C-partition. 5,3 GB. About 4 min 55 sec + validating byte for byte about 3 min 16 sec. Total 8 min 11 sec.

Size of the image-file: 3,45 GB

Restored image. First another validate about 1 min 30 sec. Total time validating and restore....dont know excactly because I left computer for a minute, but when I came back the restore was completed successfully, and the time was then about 4 minutes and a few seconds. So let's say total time 4 minutes or less.

I can understand why some find BING not very userfriendly, but I had no problems. I watched the videos several times, and read the manual (not all because there's some stuff I will never need). I was a bit nervous before I started, but everything worked.

Just thaught I should let you know.

I will stay with BING. Only BING, because I dont think I need IFD.

Thanks

 

So you partition with BING and image with SP without problems.

Did you also other trics with BING like resizing a partition etc. and after this you used SP for imageing ? No problems?


cheers.

 

Not important, but I forgot to mention that I backed up to the internal hd.

BING cant see my ext hd when connected with Firewire, only when connected with USB. But dont think this is related to BING, as I know it works with both FW and USB.

BIOS ? Cant find anything there.

And why does Windows see my ext hd (WD MyBook) when connected to the FW at the back of the pc, but not when connected in front?

 

second validating (of the image) byte per byte in not necessary because you already did this when making the image.

This makes BING even faster

 

Stupid me. The solution was so easy. I just had to check a box in the "Settings", and now everything is fine. BING now can see my ext MyBook hd also when connected with IEEE1394 FW.

 

Go for it Tepe2
I saw this thread and tied hard not to stick my oar in , but cant resist LOL

The terabyte utilities are still imho some of the greatest software I have ever seen. For all the same reasons still.
Welcome to the fold.

However: i DID have to read the manual ( and watch the videos )

I am waiting for V3 SP and the mystical magic genie of "Hardware independent Restore" which I have reason to believe on good authority may be the game breaker.

I'll still keep TUs just in case.

Regards.

 

LOL, I dont even know how you do it all already

 

Been testing Vista myself to know how it works. IFD is allowing me to "switch" between XP and Vista on my C partition within minutes with no problems.