Windows 7 and Acronis

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Hi

I have an Acronis 9 boot disk that I use all the time to clone my win xp installs and wondered if i can use this to clone my Win 7 install when I do it?
This is purely so I can go back to a clean install when/if i need to.

Would there be any issues?

Cheers
Ferret
 
Windows 7 comes with it's own imaging software

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I'll be using the builtin backup but I'll be honest, it's pretty damn slow compared to Acronis/Ghost!

edit: just fitted new HDDs so might be faster now.. I hope!
 
Moredhel said:
We had trouble with the latest Acronis. When restored the image would blue screen almost immediately.
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While I haven't done any testing with a retail build, every other build of Windows 7 I've tried both imaged and restored without failure.
 
I have used Acronis to ghost and I did a successful recovery of that ghosted image win7 home prem x64.

Took 20mins to ghost back from the recovery dvd.
 
I've been using Acronis True Image Home 2009 for almost a year now under Windows Vista SP2 64-bit to image my C: Windows partition every week to an external drive in case of hard drive failure or corruption.

I installed Windows 7 Home Edition 64-bit a week ago and noticed that while Acronis True Image appeared to be working fine, the Notification Area icon was missing so it was only the hard drive activity and heavy CPU usage that alerted me to the fact it was working. I've emailed Acronis about this but have yet to receive a reply from them.

Now I read that restored backups might not work anyway which worries me.

I didn't realise the Windows 7 backup utility was capable of imaging a drive so should I switch to using that too? Has anyone tried it? Acronis True Image 2009 takes around an hour to backup and verify the 50 GB of data on my C: partition but is the Windows 7 equivalent slower? Has anyone actually used it yet?

I have already created a system recovery DVD by the way.
 
I've been using it on my machine quite a lot to backup to a USB hard drive.

It's pretty simple and seems to work well. The first backup took a little while but the incremental backups seem pretty quick, I'd say half an hour to refresh the OS image and add new pictures and mp3s etc.

I've restored a few files to test and it was nice and easy, I've restored the OS image to a virtual machine to test and it seemed to be fine as well.

It really is a big step from the backup utility in vista but from what I remember, you get more options and control with Acronis.
 
Zap said:
I've been using it on my machine quite a lot to backup to a USB hard drive.

It's pretty simple and seems to work well. The first backup took a little while but the incremental backups seem pretty quick, I'd say half an hour to refresh the OS image and add new pictures and mp3s etc.

I've restored a few files to test and it was nice and easy, I've restored the OS image to a virtual machine to test and it seemed to be fine as well.

It really is a big step from the backup utility in vista but from what I remember, you get more options and control with Acronis.
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Can you mount the image from the Windows Backup, if I needed to grab a file or two from it?

Nate
 
Cool thanks for that, another question, is the Vhd compressed at all? On the Acronis version I used in XP the image file was usually about 50-60% the size of the drive.

Nate
 
I believe it is compressed, my system image is only 16gb but you have no control over the level of compression.
 
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