Windows 7 Backup is getting trashed in a Microsoft forum for being unbelievably bad and stupefyingly slow.
Users are posting stories that should defy belief. Jon Hell posted on April 23 that he is backing up 900GB of data on a quad core PC with 7GB of RAM; "After twenty four hours Windows Backup had managed to complete 18 per cent of the backup, but after forty eight hours, it had got even slower, and had only reached 23 per cent of the full backup."
I have a 1 TB system partition and a 2 TB data/work partition
I'm guessing any program would take a long time to back that sucker up. I have never used the Windows Backup, however....I have Acronis TI 2010. Anyone here tried the Windows Backup....is it really as bad as that article makes it out to be?
I use it, and it works fine for me. Doesn't take too long, but then, I don't sit around and wait for it either. In fact, I don't even know it's running unless I hear my hard drives wake up when it starts.
I did try out the Windows Backup, I didn't really have any problems with it but as I've got Acronis set up and only one external hard drive I've just stuck with Acronis for now.
I'd have no problems using the Windows backup though if I didn't have Acronis as it does a very good job.
I think they are talking... Yeah you know what, I use windows 7 back up all the time for saving system images etc to dvd and Ive never had any problems with it and does not take long either, Then again im not trying to back up a 900GB HDD.
I don't personally use Windows Backup (I don't actually backup at all ... not smart, I know, but I don't have anywhere to store it). But I know people who do use Windows Backup, and the speed has never been an issue for them.
It's for the normal home user, like they said, anything more than 200GB should be using an image program, a non-MS image program.
If your using Windows Backup and it's working for you, that's great, I'm not saying it's bad.
It's like Disk Manager, it's very limited in what it can do, other free partition manager programs can do much more easily.
Can MS include much better features, of coarse, but they can't because of the previous law suites and the new ones that would surely come if they did.
It's not their fault, they can't do it without legal repercussions.
Don't we all live in great countries, that Microsoft can't make those tools the very best because it might decrease the usage of third-party utilities? /sarcasm.
ok for something on par wait the 5870.... (more or less ya know.....) this is waaaaayyyyy high on the price :zip:
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i had to map a network drive because when i tried to download win7.iso, and save it to any directory on that drive. in fact, to any directory on both partitions on that drive. i had to save to a network drive in order for this thing to go through.
s win
now i'm one who is lucky enough to have...
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