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To: maceng2 who wrote (70208)	5/15/2010 1:59:20 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110653

ARCHIVE Retrieval of files. The three disk imaging programs I tested. Acronis. Western Digital free version. Paragon Back up and Recovery Free. Norton Ghost 14. All of them have a facility to retrieve individual files from imaged discs. All three programs score top marks and this facility is a very useful service to have. I don't know about anybody else, but I never did get the time to organize all my document and data files properly. After a period of time, even though I try my best to keep all my stuff organized, there is a huge mish mash of files that get unwieldy and becomes troublesome to wade through when you are looking for something. The good news is you can image the drive or the partition (get the idea CK? I don't need umpteen versions of my system files, or most other things.) where all that stuff is stored, and delete all the files "you think you don't need anymore". Two years later, when you really do need those files, and are pressed for time, hey presto!, there they are safely stacked away in a compressed file that is very neatly stacked in your archive, usually an external drive. I'm a convert to ESATA now btw. If I was to make a plug for Norton, the neat aspect about it, apart from the infinite amount of flexibility and sophistication you get from purchasing a copy, is that you only need to go into Windows Explorer, double click on an image file and the image automatically mounts and you can select an individual file to restore. The plug for Paragon is, although it doesn’t get the full marks like Acronis, it still is a very good program, runs like a top and does Linux. I'm going to be using Linux at some point and all my Paragon software is placed in the top drawer for that reason. Acronis. Very straight forward. Some minor error comes up about scripting (maybe just an aspect of the freebee program) which can be discarded, and again after loading up the program there is an excellent simple method to just read and retrieve an archive or actually go in and edit it. (The other two do the same you just need to know how to do it). Finally, my utter confidence with Norton 14, experience gained from their products over 10 years, meant I had no qualms at all about going in and destroying my whole hard drive, all 82GB and 7 partitions with a very complicated set up between them. That is an important aspect to understand about this type of software. After the restore button is pressed, the data that was on the disk being written to has gone gone gone. I am not going into advanced geek subject matter on this, it is important for a newbie to understand that image restore is like a bulldozer and cleans away all that was on the partition or disk before, including viruses. Very handy once you know what you are doing! Anyway, I am sure with time, I will gain exactly the same confidence with the Paragon and Acronis versions of Image making software. What others have written too encourages me to fully recommend these products.

To: maceng2 who wrote (70208)	5/15/2010 1:59:20 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 110653

/edit duplicate.

To: maceng2 who wrote (70208)	5/15/2010 4:29:48 PM
From: thecow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110653

Let me throw my 2 cents worth in on the flash drive. I have tried three times (hard headed) to restore from an image stored on a flash drive. I am using Acronis 2010 build 7046. Each time I ended up spending hours getting my dual boot XP/Win7 back to operational. The image itself is not damaged (I copied it back to a hard drive) but a couple of minutes before finishing the restore from the flash drive I get a surprise reboot and am left with an unallocated space where my partition was. I may be missing a setting somewhere but the 32gig flash I have won't work.