Acronis True Image Home ( v. 11 , complete package)

Thank you Jesus Christ.

Updated on Apr 5, 2013

Jesus Christ! My Uncle Thao who is a private doctor in San Antonio donated an old SONY DVD drive to me. With the upgraded drive, it reads and writes at up to 52x. About 8 gigabytes worth of information was compressed down to around 5 and took about 20 minutes to burn to two DVDs! I have only tested this product out on Microsoft Windows XP (specifically XP HOME edition). There are a handful of customized options available: options for comments, compression strength, backup destination, etc. This is just for the bootable recovery media. The software itself installs onto your computer and takes up about 100 megabytes for the install file. There is a special sandbox option to test out unknown programs before actually installing it on the system just in case it contains viruses.

Bootable media created with v11 would not work - support had to send me a new ISO file. Image verified okay and restored without error, but hung after logging in (background screen with no icon). Acronis admitted that this was a known issue (to do with Windows password manager) but would not upgrade me to 2009, in which this is fixed.