Acronis True Image

This is the best hard disk cloning software I can ever find.
It is very reliable creates exact copy of the hard disk and has
an amazing speed of creating and restoring backups. On my P4 System I
need quarter to hour to install windows. Where as Acronis restores
the image of installed XP in just 5 to 7 minutes. It has also the
features of compressing the image of a backup which is a great help
for space saving. For instance a 6 GB backup can be compressed upto
3 GB image which is 100% compression with amazing speed, efficiency
and skill. Only it lacks one feature which I think is possible to be
added in the coming versions of this software. That is to create images
of installed softwares and the registry selectively.
This feature will work in three phases. 1. Search for the installed
programs on a system. 2. Search for all of the files related to that
program and also the registry. 3. Make the image of those installed
softwares selectively so that time can be saved. Softwares like
Antivirus need frequent updates and on system crash it becomes a
headache to update again even though the latest backup was one week
ago. It would really be nice and helpful feature. How I can say it is
achievable? Well to uninstall programs I use Revo Unistaller and it
finds all the files and registry keys related to that program so that
they could be chosen to delete and thus the program is completely
removed. In this feature the program will search the registry and all
related files in similar way and will make an image of those programs
selected instead of deleting them. My Final lines would be this that
this is the best software in the thing it claims. It can be made even
more better.

True Image 10 blocked my coputer. After 3 weeks work on my new Toshiba satellite with Windows Vista a put back an image of my C drive. The result was a failure of the startup process.
Support was very poor, unfortunately, I was asked to create a infosys rapport with intructions like:
Type
# cat /proc/partitions
choose from:
8 0 127744 scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
3 0 80417183 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
3 1 10241406 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
3 2 20482875 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
3 3 1020127 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3
create a moint point:
# mkdir /mnt/tmp
# mount -t auto /devfs/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc /mnt/tmp
After a few hours a managed to create this file and send it to acronis.
A few weeks later the question arrived for another file to create...

My conclusion is that Acronis true image is not ready for Windows vista and Acronis support is very poor!

True Image 10 and 11 does not work with motherboard with the newer Intel® P35 / ICH9 chipset. So check your board before you buy or else get stuck with it while waiting for future software releases. I've been waiting since True Image 10, and 11 still does not support ICH9.