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.

Pros: After pulling my hair out with a program that i could not figure out, I started the hunt for a Backup & Restore Software that would be faster, easier to use, and light on memory hogging. Acronis True image 9 impressed me with website reviews like cnet & user comments. So I download there Free Trial put it to use instantly. Within an hour of install, I understood the basic functions of the program, and created a full backup of my drive, for a complete restoration if need be (having lost family photo's and video's to virus about 2 years ago, I wonted a good back up solution.). The backup went cleanly and fast, I thought almost to fast just 4 minutes. I then wonted to test the back up image. So I did, The image file restored every thing, it was perfect no missing files at all, it restored the drive entirely without any issues! What a rewarding feeling! Thank you Acronis True image 9 PS newegg Rocks

Cons: none that i can find so far

Overall Review: Hear is a thought if after about 2 years you need to reinstall windows XP it could take 2 to 3 hours to reinstall windows XP why you mite ask, because it usually takes about 1 hour to install windows XP, and then you need to hit the windows update button that takes you to the interent and downloads all of windows updates that takes about 1 to 2 hours to do. i had 89 new file to be update in windows updates. Then if for some reason you need to reinstall Windows XP again later, you will have to go through this again, No Thank you, i will Use Acronis true image 9 and make a back up DVD with all the new updates and any other software i uses. i usally use about 10 to 30 different types of software and drivers. Aronis save me a ton of time having away to just do a complete restore of all my software on 1 DVD, nice. Try a Free Trial

Pros: It does work- If you back up to CD's. Didn't back up to DVD's until I updated through the website. (Website won't allow updates until REGISTER with serial number and marketing information with E-Mail - then they send the update link.) - NEWEGG itself gets 5 eggs of course. Delivered in 2 days. Piece of cake.

Cons: FORCED REGISTRATION - I already paid for the product. - I don't appreciate this collection of marketing and E-Mail. (Even Windows XP's registration doesn't collect this stuff.) And believe me - The people that HAVE to get this info are the people that SELL it. - they wouldn't NEED it otherwise, regardless of what they tell their employees to tell you..

Overall Review: Was look on auction sites for an old copy of 'Drive Image 7', from before they sold the company. Found it (NEW), 2 days after i ordered this. - Love It. - Drive Image went on my computer - acronis went on the sold unit.

Pros: Can clone hard drive image to another hard drive for future recovery

Cons: Can't clone hard drive image to dvd disks for future recovery

Pros: So many people who are making backups to an image file, to a CD, or to DVD have problems. Instead of using it in Backup mode, use it with an external hard drive and use Clone mode. That method works perfectly and creates a complete mirror image of your hard drive including OS, data, registry, everything. You can either boot to the Acronis CD, or if that doesn't work install it in Windows and start Clone from there (it will reboot into a pre-windows environment to run the clone which means all RAID configurations are supported even though the documentation says it only supports RAID 0).

Cons: Doing anything other than a clone is risky - you can wind up with a corrupt backup. It would be nice if it had a one-button clone where you just click Clone and it begins the procedure instead of having to click "next" on half a dozen screens to get it to start. That would encourage me to backup more frequently if it was as simple as popping in a CD and cliking one icon.

Overall Review: If all you are going to do is boot to the Acronis CD, you don't need to install it in Windows which means you don't need the serial #...

Pros: This is one great piece of software. I used Norton Ghost 9 on my previous computer on which it worked with no problem. I recently bought a new computer that has a RAID 0 configuration, and I when I tried using Norton Ghost 9 to try to restore an image, Ghost wouldn’t read the RAID configured disks, and on the Symantec website, it says that Ghost 9 works with RAID 0. Acronis TrueImage however, worked beautifully, without a single problem. I can finally experiment with my computer without worrying about...anything. It's a must have for people who have a RAID 0 configured computer. Don’t risk buying a Norton Ghost 10, which is twice the price, and not have the software work with RAID 0, even though customer service says it will work.

Cons: my mouse doesn't seem to work in the recovery environment, it just moves up and down, so I have to use my keyboard to navigate through the recovery process; a minor setback, it beats hours of manual recovery of the system.

Overall Review: Some people have had problems with this software on their machines, maybe it isn't for everyone. I tried the trial version before I bought it and it worked without a problem on my computer.

Pros: Easy to setup and the acronis secure zone is amazing, basically it creates a partition that no windows files can get to and also hides the secure zone from the system. Also the fact that you can hit F11 to recover your system in the event that the operating system wont load is amazing, with this feature you do not even need a boot up disk like mentioned you just hit F11. There really is to many pros to list.

Cons: none.

Overall Review: For personal use you cant go wrong with this product. I cant get over how great it is.

Pros: - Very fast backup software. - Interface loads quickly. - Much less expensive through Newegg than the other leading backup software. - Better user reviews as regards to drive cloning. - Very easy to understand and attractive user interface. - Ability to add a descriptive comment to any backup. This to me is extremely useful; for example, if I have created an image that I want to keep for a long time, I can mark the backup with a message not to delete, and also with information regarding my system configuration when the backup was created. - Newegg's price on this is excellent!

Cons: - The only "con" that I can give is that a "selected files" backup can only be viewed through the "Restore" wizard. The "plug image" feature only works for full imagee. It would be nice for a quicker method for viewing the files in this type of archive. - Well, there is one more con, but not serious. Some backup programs use "native file" formatting, where the selected files are copied to your storage device and can be viewed directly through Windows Explorer. Though more convenient, this approach can cause problems since the file created/modified times can change, which can cause issues in some cases. Also, native file backup can be much slower. On the other hand, the Acronis software puts all of the data files from each backup into a "*.tib" file, which can only be viewed through the backup/restore software. But I already knew this prior to purchasing.

Overall Review: - I downloaded the trial version of this from Acronis prior to puchasing to evaluate with my laptop. I was so impressed I decided to buy it. - Compared to No***** G***** 10.x (which I use on my home system), I find this Acronis software to be faster and more flexible. It is more flexible since it allows you to keep multiple "incremental full images", whereas the other brand will only allow one incremental copy to be mainained at a time. - Acronis will also do "Independent" image backups. Then to top it off, it can also do both independent or incremental eelected file backups! This makes the software very flexible. It does exactly what I need.