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Rating:  - Excellent backup utility
I've been using Acronis True Image Home since version 7, then upgraded to v9, and now v11. It works flawlessly with my Vista 64-bit system. I have never, ever had trouble backing up or restoring images made by this product - and it is really great to be able to extract individual files from an archived image when necessary.
Rating: - Converted Skeptic
Initially I used the free trial version of this software to copy my old hard drive to the new one (approx 30gig). I really didn't expect it to work since it was a free trial version- I was amazed, it did work. It copied everything exactly as it was and put it on the new drive (replaced the HDD in a laptop). On a few programs the password/unlock codes didn't copy but the existing codes were re-entered and all was well. Great product.
Rating:  - For my computer BACK-UP
It was highly recomended for use in backing up a computer
The price was right and the delivery was prompt.
Rating: - Acronis 11 Purchase at Amazon
This is a great product at a good price from Amazon. Acronis-11 works with MS-Vista, and this is a new hurdle for many Back-up Products, which have difficulty with imaging harddrive Vista partitions. My greatest pleasure was that Amazon offered the best price!
Rating:  - Trashes Operating System
I used the 15-day trial version from the Acronis website and it crashed my PC and made it unuseable. This is a full version that is only enabled for 15 days.
I have been using Norton Ghost 9.0 for some time now and it worked flawlessly. However, with my new PC, which contains only SATA drives and only USB ports for the keyboard/mouse, Norton Ghost crashed. It started ok and went into PC DOS as it was supposed to, but then it hung. I could not get out of this hung state. The GHREBOOT utility provided by Norton to get out of this hung state did not work. GDISK didn't work either. (Norton Ghost 9.0, with the latest updates, is supposed to work with SATA drives.) Ghost changed my drive letters such that D: is now the operating system. I left it as the D: drive and reloaded Windows XP Home. It never created the Ghost image.
After running True Image, my PC crashed again. It backed up everything ok (or so it says). But when I attempted a restore, it displayed "NTLDR is missing" and "press CTRL-ALT-DEL to continue" which put me in an endless loop. Upon futher examination, True Image scrambled my disks and moved the operating system back to the C: drive.
For some reason, the Repair function on Windows did not repair the operating system during either crash.
So I suggest you take advantage of the trial version before spending your money on the full version.
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