Hi manhunter,
I haven't tried the Acronis variation - but I have used Paragon Adaptive Restore - which they have had for quite a while.
It works beautifully. Takes 2 seconds to apply.
Windows on the new machine , boots up, loading the appropriate drivers as it does.
I have this Paragon product Paragon Drive Backup Server - Overview
Adaptive Restore is also included in the less expensive products.
Hi there
with Acronis -- YES -- I haven't tried the paragon version but another poster seems to imply that it works as well.
I'm using Acronis Workstation True Image.
Cheers
jimbo
I've tried
- ATI 11 (Western Digital)
- ATI 2010
- Macrium Reflect
- Paragon
- Windows 7 built-in
- ATI 2010 I had too many issues with
- Macrium worked quite well. I just don't like booting with the CD to restore all the time,
- Paragon I found too confusing, but did seem to do a good job although images were larger than MacRe or ATI
- Windows 7 is good, but you can't specify a folder to put image in and the images are too large.
- ATI 11 WD is what I went back to. Basic, easy and fast...Only con is you have to have a WD hard drive.
Hi manhunter,
Yes , that's what it is for:
Paragon Adaptive Restore is a complete solution for migrating a Windows based system (any edition since Win2K) to a different hardware environment, either physical (P2P) or virtual (P2V). This operation will be as easy and seamless as never before.
Paragon Adaptive Restore will help you recover the operating system’s startup ability, even after an unsuccessful system virtualization by a 3-rd party utility. It also enables you to make a physical Windows-based system bootable on different hardware.
Hope it helps
Since Paragon software is being discussed here, it is appropriate for me to share my experience with Paragon Backup. ( I use the licensed version of Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2010 Suite and I always do the backup and restore from the recovery CD rather than from within Windows)
When I groomed my Zotac Zbox HD-ID11 Mini-PC (with a new Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB HDD installed by me) in June/July this year, I took backups using both my ShadowProtect Recovery CD as well as Paragon Recovery CD. No problems.
A month back I again tried to take the backups as a routine. This time Paragon declined saying that there are errors in the disk and I should run the appropriate tools from the manufacturer and check it.
Now ShadowProtect Recovery CD. It reported that there are some non-fatal errors but went on to create the backup.
The HDD failed the Seatools for Windows test, whereupon I downloaded and burnt the SeatoolsDOS (hmmmm...that's gonnabe the last time I burnt a CD. No more burning CDs. Only USB pendrives)
Seatools DOS did find errors in 8 blocks and repaired it. Thereafter Paragon successfully backed up the system partition.
I also have to report that I did not experience any problems in running the PC with those errors and so was unaware of it till reported by Paragon. (The system partition has only the OS and program files. Data and Media are stored in other partitions.)
Now what is the verdict? Is Shadowprotect which went on with the backup because the errors were non-fatal better or Paragon which insisted that I correct them before it could?
Last edited by Ponmayilal; 23 Oct 2010 at 03:11.
Good question. I'd rather have the backup happen than not happen. Since I am not home very ofter, and very busy when I am home, I tend to run maintenance actions at night in an unattended mode.
Which means its best if the process doesn't prompt me for anything except at the very beginning when I present, so that when I get back hours ( days ) later, I find the process is done, and check the report to see if there were any problems that I should know about. If I came home only to find "hey, non-fatal error here. Want me to continue? Click OK to continue" on the screen, I would uninstall the application and try a different one..
PS. My trial of Paragon did not go well. It tried to backup my C: drive and failed. Then I let my Netbook run out of power to test the hibernate function, and it would not boot back up. It displayed "Press F6 to start Paragon Recovery Tools" , whether I pressed it or not, the screen would go blank with just a flashing curson. I booted Windows recovery disk and ran bootrec.exe /fixmbr to get rid of Paragon, and my system started up normally.
As you may have guessed , I uninstalled Paragon first thing after I booted up.
I'm going with Acronis 2010
I'm using with Acronis and it's working.
So I'm fine with it.
Dunno about Paragon.
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