Re: Norton Partition Magic

yes, my experience with the Acronis people has been very favorable.

Their disk director is an excellent partitioning tool that functions inside
of the desktop and not in dos. It also recovered my crashed partitions and
saved my valuable data.

I've been being cheap lately and haven't wanted to buy a disk imaging
software. But i did found a freeware that has made the images. However, i
have not needed to test the software yet and see if a restoration would be
successful. If you want to try it out it is called PE Builder.

Also, I think that I found that ntbackup has a similar feature as well, but
havnt tested it. You have to use the "advance mode" to see the options to
either backup or create somekind of restore disks.....


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"To be a 0 or is it to be the 1 ?
That is the data".......W.Gatespeare


"Margaret Wilson" wrote:

brentromero wrote:
Is anyone familiar with the idiosyncracies of Norton's PM? I am wondering
why it is unable to recognize a 300 GB SATA HDD via a SCSI adapter (I ran out
of SATA ports on my mobo and opted for a Belkin card that gives me two more
SATA ports but is recognized as a SCSI port). On the PM display it shows the
drive as being bad when I know that it is okay.

I'm trying to partition off this drive to use as a clone for an emergency
boot drive using Norton Ghost.

I'm also trying to figure out why my first attempt at cloning my C: drive
resulted in a perpetual "MBR Error 13" advisory during bootup. I reformatted
the HDD but for some reason I still see the error. I saw another person with
the same problem but there was no solution.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I used to own PowerQuest's PM and Drive Image, but I found support (and
updates) were practically nonexistent once Symantec got hold of these
great products. And now the best of DI has been eaten by Ghost. I soon
found that because my (the most recent) version of DI was purchased
through PowerQuest, Symantec was going to make me pay full price to
upgrade. Between that and Norton's bloated AV, I began activately
searching for replacement software. I've found Acronis True Image 9.0 a
much better disk imaging/cloning program than Ghost. Further, there's
an active forum which is monitored by Acronis tech support reps.
Although I've continued to use Partition Magic (again the latest version
and purchased from PowerQuest), I disklike the two boot floppies which
only sometimes work, and it doesn't always see all of my drives.
Figuring Symantec would pull the same stunt with me upon trying to
upgrade should they ever enhance the product, I started looking at other
options and settled on Acronis Disk Director Suite 10. It sees all my
drives and performs functions *much* faster than PM. Further, it has a
boot CD, which always works when I need it. Updates are much more
forthcoming from Acronis than they've ever been from Symantec, and the
products aren't outrageously priced. Finally, if you own both TI and
DD, you can put both (in full and safe modes) on the same recovery CD.

Acronis' tech support has its issues as do most tech support depts. But
there are live people who monitor the forum and they do reply with
solutions to most problems pretty quickly. Further, you also get the
support of fellow users. <rant on> IMNSHO, Symantec once made great
software. Now they sell bloat, and if they buy another company with
decent apps, they soon destroy them or drive users away by making them
pay full price for an upgrade when they already own the app. I don't
see myself ever buying or recommending Symantec software again.
Something major would have to change for the better for that to happen.
<rant off>

Check out Acronis and see what you think.

Regards,

Margaret

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