jimbo45
New member
Hi all
seeing a lot of positive posts over Macrium Reflect I thought I would try out the FREE edition.
NO GOOD -- if a STAND ALONE BOOTABLE CD DOESN'T WORK THEN THE WHOLE THING IS USELESS.
The whole point of decent backup / recovery is that you should be able to restore an image using a bootable media if your own hard disk or W7 system becomes non operable.
Both with normal and stand alone editions the boot fails on a laptop
CPU1 Machine check exception 00000000005
CPU 1 Bank 1 32000004000000800
CPU 1 Bank 5 320000121020080400
Kernel Panic not syncing CPU context corrupt.
Now for W7 it's no point attempting to create a Bartpe option since this is only good for XP.
I don't have any problem with ACRONIS - paid for version -- but my version is OLD so I want to upgrade to something newer especially for SSD's and e-sata disks).
I'll try DANTZ to see if that is any better.
Doesn't matter HOW GOOD the product is on Windows itself -- a backup / restore MUST work from an external bootable medium to be of any proper use after any system failure.
Incidently I don't also like ther idea of using the Volume shadow service -- VSS for backup -- doubles the space needed while running from within Windows -- although it doesn't double the final size ofthe backup on disk. It's done because it speeds up the backup -- but for backup I think I prefer ACCURACY over SPEED if either has to be compromised.
cheers
jimbo
seeing a lot of positive posts over Macrium Reflect I thought I would try out the FREE edition.
NO GOOD -- if a STAND ALONE BOOTABLE CD DOESN'T WORK THEN THE WHOLE THING IS USELESS.
The whole point of decent backup / recovery is that you should be able to restore an image using a bootable media if your own hard disk or W7 system becomes non operable.
Both with normal and stand alone editions the boot fails on a laptop
CPU1 Machine check exception 00000000005
CPU 1 Bank 1 32000004000000800
CPU 1 Bank 5 320000121020080400
Kernel Panic not syncing CPU context corrupt.
Now for W7 it's no point attempting to create a Bartpe option since this is only good for XP.
I don't have any problem with ACRONIS - paid for version -- but my version is OLD so I want to upgrade to something newer especially for SSD's and e-sata disks).
I'll try DANTZ to see if that is any better.
Doesn't matter HOW GOOD the product is on Windows itself -- a backup / restore MUST work from an external bootable medium to be of any proper use after any system failure.
Incidently I don't also like ther idea of using the Volume shadow service -- VSS for backup -- doubles the space needed while running from within Windows -- although it doesn't double the final size ofthe backup on disk. It's done because it speeds up the backup -- but for backup I think I prefer ACCURACY over SPEED if either has to be compromised.
cheers
jimbo
My Computer
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Custom built, several laptops HP/ASUS
- OS
- Linux CENTOS 7 / various Windows OS'es and servers
- CPU
- Intel i7 Intel i5
- Memory
- 8GB, 16GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- On Motherboard
- Sound Card
- Realtek HD audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Apple Cinema display, Samsung LCD
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 X 1080
- Hard Drives
- 4 X 1TB SATA
- Mouse
- Toshiba wireless laser
- Internet Speed
- > 20MB up
