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Skybird · 04-13-11, 02:49 PM

I know Acronis, I am using it since years, on my old rig with XP, and now on my new with W7. I use to do a reinstall from an image once a year. But already on my old sytem, with a P4 at 3GHz, it took around 2 hours to copy back the files, and they all where totally fragmentated - cleaning around 180 GB of fragmentated data takes many hours or a night.

I have not tried Acronis on W7 and my new rig, though. I hope it works - Acrinis does not seem to be what it oince was. Checking German sites and German Amazon you see that customers are ripping it apart for it's constant failures to reproduce saved data images. It got good reviews in past years - but the latest version gets annihilated by reviewers, especially under W7 and Vista. I hope I get saved from these troubles.

Obviously it is dependant on the ammount of data that need to get copied. Possible I have a much larger installation than you do.

I did roughly the same way you did with your Excel sheet, but with a list in a German windows book. By that I checked info on what services may be not needed to consume booting time.

Anyhow, I alrready said it, the reliability history worked after my last chnages in service settings. You remember the other thread where I reported that it produced reports? It did until several days after that. Last service changes derive from the time even BEFORE that thread.

I feel I wasted enough time uselessly on this issue, and until no further problems arise, I will simply ignore it. The system boots fast and works well and stable, what else can I want. I have several images from various installation status (with and withiout FS partitions (60 GB for that alone), with and without all game installations, and both with Acronis and the inbuilt Windows 7 image backup feature. In case I run into serious trouble, there is good hope than at least one of these, stored on 3 different external 1TB MyPassport HDs, should work. I was able to get my hand on two of these three very cheap, that's why I have so many.

Mediafire gives me firewall and cookie troubles, I see. I love it when websites want me to lower my firewall settings and enable full cookies. The latter tend to multiply like mice - just faster, and next comes the spam when forgetting to clean the cookie cache. Cookies usually are shut down and only get individual allowance over here. Open and unlimited access to my system for a foreign website, eh? Yeah, sure.

Maybe I indeed switch on ALL services, and then walk down the list with safe settings to "manual".

04-13-11, 02:49 PM	#3
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,717 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I know Acronis, I am using it since years, on my old rig with XP, and now on my new with W7. I use to do a reinstall from an image once a year. But already on my old sytem, with a P4 at 3GHz, it took around 2 hours to copy back the files, and they all where totally fragmentated - cleaning around 180 GB of fragmentated data takes many hours or a night. I have not tried Acronis on W7 and my new rig, though. I hope it works - Acrinis does not seem to be what it oince was. Checking German sites and German Amazon you see that customers are ripping it apart for it's constant failures to reproduce saved data images. It got good reviews in past years - but the latest version gets annihilated by reviewers, especially under W7 and Vista. I hope I get saved from these troubles. Obviously it is dependant on the ammount of data that need to get copied. Possible I have a much larger installation than you do. I did roughly the same way you did with your Excel sheet, but with a list in a German windows book. By that I checked info on what services may be not needed to consume booting time. Anyhow, I alrready said it, the reliability history worked after my last chnages in service settings. You remember the other thread where I reported that it produced reports? It did until several days after that. Last service changes derive from the time even BEFORE that thread. I feel I wasted enough time uselessly on this issue, and until no further problems arise, I will simply ignore it. The system boots fast and works well and stable, what else can I want. I have several images from various installation status (with and withiout FS partitions (60 GB for that alone), with and without all game installations, and both with Acronis and the inbuilt Windows 7 image backup feature. In case I run into serious trouble, there is good hope than at least one of these, stored on 3 different external 1TB MyPassport HDs, should work. I was able to get my hand on two of these three very cheap, that's why I have so many. Mediafire gives me firewall and cookie troubles, I see. I love it when websites want me to lower my firewall settings and enable full cookies. The latter tend to multiply like mice - just faster, and next comes the spam when forgetting to clean the cookie cache. Cookies usually are shut down and only get individual allowance over here. Open and unlimited access to my system for a foreign website, eh? Yeah, sure. Maybe I indeed switch on ALL services, and then walk down the list with safe settings to "manual". __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.