Acronis True Image 9.00 Update.
It took a few atttempts to install, probably due to my running other programs in the background (like firewall and anti-virus etc).
I have cloned my 74Gb Raptor (which has all my OSs) to a 120Gb Maxtor on a USB2 External Drive.
It took about 30 mins and went went without a hitch. I am typing this on the cloned drive (for testing purposes). It needed a couple of re-boots and the firewire drive was not detected, but I sorted this via Device Manager. The OS took longer to load the first time, but subsequent re-boots were much faster.
I am quite impressed. My system is not that staight forward with 2 x SATA drives, 2 x PATA drives (one in a firewire enclosure) , 3 x optical drives, RAM drives, multiple OS.
Acronis have a deal on at the moment - US$69.99 for True Image 9 and Disk Director Suite 10. I decided to buy them - it came to £49.48 inc. VAT.
It took a few atttempts to install, probably due to my running other programs in the background (like firewall and anti-virus etc).
I have cloned my 74Gb Raptor (which has all my OSs) to a 120Gb Maxtor on a USB2 External Drive.
It took about 30 mins and went went without a hitch. I am typing this on the cloned drive (for testing purposes). It needed a couple of re-boots and the firewire drive was not detected, but I sorted this via Device Manager. The OS took longer to load the first time, but subsequent re-boots were much faster.
I am quite impressed. My system is not that staight forward with 2 x SATA drives, 2 x PATA drives (one in a firewire enclosure) , 3 x optical drives, RAM drives, multiple OS.
Acronis have a deal on at the moment - US$69.99 for True Image 9 and Disk Director Suite 10. I decided to buy them - it came to £49.48 inc. VAT.
