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Don't Bother
I bought acronis TI 10 a year ago. It worked twice for me: the first time i managed to migrate my system to a new drive, the second i managed to backup my system just once on an external drive. Since then I have installed several windows xp updates. Now I am trying to backup my system acronis TI 10 but no go. Let me explain: the software takes over 45 minutes to detect my hard drives even though my total hard space including backup drive is only 900GB. Then it hangs as soon as i instruct it to clear backup drive ready for backup. Then after a lot of system restarts, uninstalling and reinstalling acronis TI it now completely refuses to recognise my drives "Error: acronis could not detect any hard drives". Ok so I log onto acronis website expecting to find some sort of update or patch... nothing!! not even a single update for the next up version v11!! The only updates they have now are for the latest acronis TI 2009!!! Ok so I want to uninstall the software for the last time.. no go. It is not listed in Add/Remove programs, and there is no start menu shortcut for uninstalling this software. Acronis Knowledge base has 17 step manual removal process including removing over 10 registry keys manually YUCK!!!!
I don't know what sort of idiot at Acronis has created this policy of not providing updates except for the latest release!!! Its crazy!!!
I will never have anything to do with ACRONIS again!
Avoid all acronis products and save yourself a good chunk of your lifetime.
Works well on my system. 
Over the years I have had 3 computers and experienced some nightmare experiences
when things went wrong and I then had to spend days reinstalling my software while knowing
that I had lost some information forever.
I decided to dual boot my new computer with Vista and Windows XP and realised I needed
to have a reliable backup system if things went wrong.
I installed Acronis True Image 10 on my Vista Hard Drive and printed out the True Image Manual
so I could always refer to it should my computer die on me.
This is essential unless you are blessed with a photographic memory.
I have also purchased a 1 TB external hard drive to keep my backups on.
Whenever I make any major changes to my software I just do a full partition backup
of both my Vista and XP drives and this holds the complete drive images.
I have restored my full backup images at least 3 times and the Acronis software has
successfully recovered my computer software in just a few hours saving me a lot of time,
effort, frustration and leaving me confident in its ability to complete my Backups.
I realise that with different hardware configurations on other computers some people may have
different results using Acronis True Image 10 but it has worked well and proved itself to be a reliable
and trusted piece of Backup Software on my Dual Booted Computer System which has the following
configuration:-
Windows Vista Home Premium.
Windows XP.
Motherboard Asus P5N-E SLI.
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 at 2.66 Ghz.
Memory 3 Gb DDR2, 800Mhz.
Graphics Boards two Winfast PX8800 GTX TDH in SLI Mode.
Internal Sata Hard Drives, two 320 GB at 7200 RPM.
External USB Hard Drives, 1 at 320 GB and 1 at 1 TB, both used for Backup.
Two Rewritable DVD/CD LightScribe Drives.
Power Supply, XCLIO 750 Watt.
Fine for disk cloning
Having read other comments, I believe the satisfaction heavily depends on how it is used. I've bought it only for disk cloning, and it's never failed. My PC is an IBM ThinkPad X24 with a dockstation, in which a second hard disk is placed. I've tried cloning several times: 30GB->60GB, 60GB->120GB, and 120GB->250GB. The cloning process is very fast; it takes less than 20 minutes to clone a 120GB disk. If you compare with the speed of XCOPY, you'll be amazed. The only problem for me is the location of the cloning menu. I don't use it frequently so it takes some time to find the menu.
Summary: Excellent for cloning. I've never used other functions.
The proof of the pudding
I guess backup software is a waste of money - unless you come to need it at which point it becomes worth its weight in gold.
I decided to get backed up as I'm a semi pro photographer with 10s of Gb worth of photographs and the thought of losing them was becoming more and more of a worry.
So about 6 months ago I bought a WD Mybook 250GB external USB drive and TI 10. Its been taking weekly differential backups whenever I remember to leave the PC turned on overnight on a Friday - no dramas or fanfare.
This week my XP installation got totally trashed by a virus and became completely unbootable. I booted from the TI 10 cd and restored the drive from the image taken a week ago. It took 4 nerve-wracking hours but worked perfectly.
All of a sudden it became the best buy I've made since I got my camera!
Beware, this software may not work!
I bought this software in July last year and for a while it worked as expected. In November it started crashing every time I tried to use it. I contacted the help desk and spent a considerable amount of time providing them with diagnostic information. Despite repeated assurances they have not provided a solution and recently have stopped responding to my e-mails.
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