Designed for home and home-office usage, the Acronis True Image 9.0 is amongst the most comprehensive and complete backup and restore applications. The Acronis True Image 9.0 clones your entire hard drive and provides a reliable back-up for your family pictures, videos, music, and other important documents in your computer. With a built-in scheduler, the True Image 9.0 creates backup automatically, sparing you the trouble of doing so. The Acronis Secure Zone saves your data in a special hidden partition on your hard drive and eliminates the need for an additional storage device/disk (hard drive, DVDs, CDs). Incase your operating system fails, with the Acronis Recovery Manager you can boot your computer (using the F11 key) and start the recovery process without using any boot media.
You can upgrade your PC to a new system using Acronis True Image 9.0's PC Cloning feature. And you can do this without reinstalling your operating system and applications, or configuring your settings. A wizard driven interface walks you through each task and makes the True Image very easy-to-use.
Pros: I needed to clone my 40GB Maxtor to a 100 GB Maxtor drive. I first tried this with North Ghost 2003 and it blew up half way thru. Next I tried it with MaxBlast4 (this is the software that comes with the Maxtor hardrive). I though it had worked but it corrupted many windows files. Then I tried Acronis True Image 9.0, wow works great, super easy menu and all files copied over perfectly - what more can you ask!
Cons: Be sure to update the software after installing. Someone else complained about installing the updates, but I had no trouble, very simple to do just hit update in tools menu and it take you to thier website. You'll need your product code for this.
Overall Review: The product serial number is not on the box or CD or even on the sleve of the CD holder, you'll find it in a 4 page booklet in the box. So as soon as you can write down the code onto your CD sleve or you may accidentaly throw away the booklet.