Don't ever do an update to OS before backing up THE IMAGE of your

I am watching all these questions and bugs and keep asking myself WHY most of
the people have the courage to do any significant update without having a
fall back plan
I Never Ever do such a thing before taking an IMAGE backup of my C:\ drive,
BUT obviously NOT with the poor windows tools !!!
I am using for a while the ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE V.8, build 771, and never failed
It will take an IMAGE that you canm plug/unplug and always return to this
point in time if your new sw adventure fails, or unhappy....
For those familiar with edonkey 2000 or anyother filesharing system on the
net, get it from there ... and good luck!
Don't forget to define and manage the "Secure Zone" within the product, it
will save the backups within a certain space (you may define its size) and
WXP cannot touch or scramble ...NEVER !
Then you can afford to play without fear and unnecessary pain trying all the
betas in the world...!

As Acronis's True Image 8, either Power Quest's (now Symantec) Power Image 7
or Norton Ghost (2003 or 9) will do the same.

- Active@ Disk Image wil do the trick too:

http://www.disk-image.net/

- Paragon's Exact Image:

http://ei.drive-backup.com/

- even XXCopy (although is not very user friendly):

http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm


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"myself" wrote:

> I am watching all these questions and bugs and keep asking myself WHY most of
> the people have the courage to do any significant update without having a
> fall back plan
> I Never Ever do such a thing before taking an IMAGE backup of my C:\ drive,
> BUT obviously NOT with the poor windows tools !!!
> I am using for a while the ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE V.8, build 771, and never failed
> It will take an IMAGE that you canm plug/unplug and always return to this
> point in time if your new sw adventure fails, or unhappy....
> For those familiar with edonkey 2000 or anyother filesharing system on the
> net, get it from there ... and good luck!
> Don't forget to define and manage the "Secure Zone" within the product, it
> will save the backups within a certain space (you may define its size) and
> WXP cannot touch or scramble ...NEVER !
> Then you can afford to play without fear and unnecessary pain trying all the
> betas in the world...!

Before Acronis i used to work with Norton Ghost and Powerquest.
To my humble opinion, not even comparable, under any criteria....
It really saved my ass....

"Carlos" wrote:

> As Acronis's True Image 8, either Power Quest's (now Symantec) Power Image 7
> or Norton Ghost (2003 or 9) will do the same.
>
> - Active@ Disk Image wil do the trick too:
>
> http://www.disk-image.net/
>
> - Paragon's Exact Image:
>
> http://ei.drive-backup.com/
>
> - even XXCopy (although is not very user friendly):
>
> http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm
>
>
> ================================================== ==
>
> "myself" wrote:
>
> > I am watching all these questions and bugs and keep asking myself WHY most of
> > the people have the courage to do any significant update without having a
> > fall back plan
> > I Never Ever do such a thing before taking an IMAGE backup of my C:\ drive,
> > BUT obviously NOT with the poor windows tools !!!
> > I am using for a while the ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE V.8, build 771, and never failed
> > It will take an IMAGE that you canm plug/unplug and always return to this
> > point in time if your new sw adventure fails, or unhappy....
> > For those familiar with edonkey 2000 or anyother filesharing system on the
> > net, get it from there ... and good luck!
> > Don't forget to define and manage the "Secure Zone" within the product, it
> > will save the backups within a certain space (you may define its size) and
> > WXP cannot touch or scramble ...NEVER !
> > Then you can afford to play without fear and unnecessary pain trying all the
> > betas in the world...!

...that True Image saved you bu..

All these products are ok. Important is to use them, as you suggested,
before upgrades, updates and the likes. Important too, is not to pirate them.


"myself" wrote:

> Before Acronis i used to work with Norton Ghost and Powerquest.
> To my humble opinion, not even comparable, under any criteria....
> It really saved my ass....
>
> "Carlos" wrote:
>
> > As Acronis's True Image 8, either Power Quest's (now Symantec) Power Image 7
> > or Norton Ghost (2003 or 9) will do the same.
> >
> > - Active@ Disk Image wil do the trick too:
> >
> > http://www.disk-image.net/
> >
> > - Paragon's Exact Image:
> >
> > http://ei.drive-backup.com/
> >
> > - even XXCopy (although is not very user friendly):
> >
> > http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm
> >
> >
> > ================================================== ==
> >
> > "myself" wrote:
> >
> > > I am watching all these questions and bugs and keep asking myself WHY most of
> > > the people have the courage to do any significant update without having a
> > > fall back plan
> > > I Never Ever do such a thing before taking an IMAGE backup of my C:\ drive,
> > > BUT obviously NOT with the poor windows tools !!!
> > > I am using for a while the ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE V.8, build 771, and never failed
> > > It will take an IMAGE that you canm plug/unplug and always return to this
> > > point in time if your new sw adventure fails, or unhappy....
> > > For those familiar with edonkey 2000 or anyother filesharing system on the
> > > net, get it from there ... and good luck!
> > > Don't forget to define and manage the "Secure Zone" within the product, it
> > > will save the backups within a certain space (you may define its size) and
> > > WXP cannot touch or scramble ...NEVER !
> > > Then you can afford to play without fear and unnecessary pain trying all the
> > > betas in the world...!