Drive Backup Vista Bugs and Problems Discuss Drive Backup in the Windows Vista forums; As much as every computer wants to deny the inevitable, your data is only as secure as your backups. Every hard drive [link removed] is eventually going to fail (and ...

[petter.smith0]

As much as every computer wants to deny the inevitable, your data is only as secure as your backups. Every hard drive [link removed] is eventually going to fail (and malicious software frequently targets data files), and you will lose years’ worth of files, documents, programs, and all other information that you have kept and stored in your computer unless you have a good backup [link removed].

Petter Smith
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Hi Petter: Advertising is not allowed, So, I had to edit your post. Znod

[Buster]

Not if you use Acronis Trueimage to make a copy of the hard drive it saves registration details as well, I have four different version and can restore any one of them in around twenty minutes all other files are saved on blue ray disc and a Ethernet hard drive so I have duplicates of everything all I would loose are minor every day things that don't matter and are easily replaced

[Znod]

Ditto. Ditto.

[airman]

I have a question about this backup software first I have never used it before and my question is if I make a back up with this software and I have a C: hard drive failure than buy a new hard drive to replace the bad C; would i be able to use this software to completely back up the prior C: drive onto the new drive and have a working install. i am not sure i am getting the question across but will wait and see with your answers.

[Buster]

The answer is yes you can do just that from within the program you make a bootable disc, once the drive has been replaced boot from the disc Acronis program will be loaded it will then scan your drives for information if you keep the backup on drive D:/ you will then select the backup you want to restore and away you go you can also restore from DVD if its small enough I have not tried from blue ray yet but I will in the future this program is the best that I personally have ever found for me its never failed But I cant say it will not as all things do I always Validate and test a backup by restoring it so that I know I can really on it when I need them
at the moment I still have a version of XP Pro, and 32bit vista which I can restore whenever I want although I run 64bit alone now days as everything I have works with it

I made a 41GB backup last night of my C:/drive to blue ray disc it took 3hrs 16mins Validated this morning another 1.5hrs so I will wait until I am finished for the day and try a full restore from it Tonight If it works I will be able to remove all backups from the computer to blue ray disc freeing up a lot of space about 200Gb I will let you know what happens