Post by Gilvan Blight on Oct 12, 2006 16:55:03 GMT -5
Okay no it's not a game, but it's the utility I used last night to make my system play games again.
Quickly: a fine piece of software that I am seriously considering picking up even at the $50 price tag.
Summary: True Image is a suit of hard drive utilities. It includes a wide variety of back up utils including copying raw images of full drives or partitions or traditional backup, a cloning (ghosting) utility, a new HD set up util (does formating and partitioning) and a few other options I haven't dug into yet.
The Good: this thing worked amazing for cloning my dying c: drive on a 40 gig drive to a nice new 250Gig drive. It runs in Windows (which I found very odd) and you just hook up your drives normally. You pick which drive to clone from, which to clone through and hit go. It was amazingly fast. In under 20 minutes my entire drive was copied and I had new new boot disk (after swapping the master/slave). I then in under 5 minutes formated my old boot disk and made it a back up drive. Add the large variety of back up options to this and you have some great software. You can even set it up to automatically ghost your drive and then use a version of system restore that truely turns the clock back and puts your drives exactly how they were before.
The Bad: It's a little vague exactly what icons do what. It was easy enough to read the help file, but who likes reading help files.
The Ugly: There doesn't appear to be any way to set up the new drive with partitions. You have to copy the partition structure of the old drive, which for me sucked, as my old drive was small enough I didn't have any partitions.
Overall: this piece of software let me save my system. Lots of pieces of software could have done this, but this did it in such a user friendly and easy way that I can't help but recommend it.
Some props: I have to thank Mindmusic for recommending this software.
Quickly: a fine piece of software that I am seriously considering picking up even at the $50 price tag.
Summary: True Image is a suit of hard drive utilities. It includes a wide variety of back up utils including copying raw images of full drives or partitions or traditional backup, a cloning (ghosting) utility, a new HD set up util (does formating and partitioning) and a few other options I haven't dug into yet.
The Good: this thing worked amazing for cloning my dying c: drive on a 40 gig drive to a nice new 250Gig drive. It runs in Windows (which I found very odd) and you just hook up your drives normally. You pick which drive to clone from, which to clone through and hit go. It was amazingly fast. In under 20 minutes my entire drive was copied and I had new new boot disk (after swapping the master/slave). I then in under 5 minutes formated my old boot disk and made it a back up drive. Add the large variety of back up options to this and you have some great software. You can even set it up to automatically ghost your drive and then use a version of system restore that truely turns the clock back and puts your drives exactly how they were before.
The Bad: It's a little vague exactly what icons do what. It was easy enough to read the help file, but who likes reading help files.
The Ugly: There doesn't appear to be any way to set up the new drive with partitions. You have to copy the partition structure of the old drive, which for me sucked, as my old drive was small enough I didn't have any partitions.
Overall: this piece of software let me save my system. Lots of pieces of software could have done this, but this did it in such a user friendly and easy way that I can't help but recommend it.
Some props: I have to thank Mindmusic for recommending this software.