Question for Acronis True Image Home 2012 users...

Does this software actually WORK for you???
 
So far it seems I'm having nothing but issues.  I can't get it to clone a working OS partition (i.e., close the current OS partition to a new hard drive and be able to boot from that).  It also has had issues backing up a partition to a location that's on a different partition but happens to be part of the same hard drive.  Then, I bought a new hard drive and it "added" it with only 16 tracks per cylinder (s/b 255) with over 287 TRILLION cylinders!  When I try to re-add the drive it says "You will not be able to use the entire disk space because your host operating system does not support GPT partitioning scheme.  787619.00 TB will remain unpartitioned."  Really???
 
I'm also annoyed that it seems I need to use third-party utilities to do the other stuff I want like modifying partitions and just seeing the disk statistics!
 
Obviously, what I'm trying to do is something wild and bizarre, right?  This has now wasted a lot of my time (and caused me to buy a new hard drive that it's appearing I didn't need to get).
 
Is anyone else having these type issues?  Should I have bought Paragon instead?  (I bought Acronis because the software that comes with the new drives, Seagates, uses a smaller version and from some feedback from here...)

I also had to have one of those online chats with a Customer Service agent which ended with him uploading a very large ISO file that I made into a bootable disk.  I've tried using the boot disk a few times, but am still getting problems.  Also, you can't do basic stuff with the boot media like copy files...

No confusion at all except in my decision to buy Acronis instead of Paragon apparently.  I don't have a 278,000,000 terrabyte drive, yet that's what it was seeing (I'm only using MBR partitioning).

I've migrated to a different PC and things look normal, therefore I'm going to assume that the disk controller chips on the other PC have issues.

Talked to Scott at ADK today as well and am REALLY hoping that big check comes in soon so I can get someting less than eight years old to work with!

I don't think your experience is typical, not that I know why you are experiencing the problems you are seeing either. I have both True Image & Disk Director and between them there isn't much that can't be done with hard drives and images.

They've saved me from melt down several times and also made things like HD replacement for both myself and companies I do work for extremely easy. They have literally saved me hours of time.

Scant consolation for you I know but in answer to your original question, in my experience yes it does work and very well. Hopefully your problems are sorted now though.

Sorry to interupt but, I'm curious.
If one has Windows 7, what is the point of buying Acronis? Thanks

I started using Acronis after I lost my audio hard drive.  I literally lost several projects both completed and incomplete when that drive went belly up.  it could not be recovered by 2nd level data recovery (which involved replacing the circuit card assy of the hard drive with a new one).  it would have required 3rd level which is physical data mining from the platten itself.  and that's very expensive.  so I lost that data.

I now back up using acronis regularly.

Jim Roseberry

Sorry to interupt but, I'm curious. If one has Windows 7, what is the point of buying Acronis? Thanks

 
Because backup is (ideally) best done outside of the OS.
 
FWIW, True Image is used to backup literally every DAW we build.
I've use the app successfully many many times...
 
And yes, you want to take the time to make a backup... while things are working well.
It'll potentially save hours of lost time/frustration.

Thanks Jim. I tend to back up my E: drive to my F: drive and vica versa and my C: drive using the windows7 clone thingy.