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Previously I'd used Disc Wizard to restore image of a larger drive to a smaller partition on a Dell alptop which worked perfectly without problems. Also the time to create the image plus restore it was about 10 hours. During the restore process there's a step where the only options are "Free space before" and "Free space after." Selecting either of these choices creates within the target partition another partition the size of the image being restored leaving the remainder of the target partition as unformatted free space. I had 2 Western Digital 250GB SATA drives that I wanted to restore to 2 different 450GB partitions on a 1TB Seagate drive after the WinXP active partition was successfully restored. On 4/16/09 I discovered there are some limitations for restoring image to partition using Seagate Disc Wizard. Is this normal, and how can such files be deleted either from Windows or from Disk Wizard? Previously using Ghost 2003 I create system image every 4 months and delete images over 8 months old and would like to do the same for Disk Wizard images. The folder shows 0 bytes when properties for folder are checked, and no files are seen when the folder is opened in Windows. I'm much impressed with th difference in time, but the Disk Wizard image file is invisible to Windows. It took just 4 minutes to create image of 7GB of data, 2 minutes to validate image and 6 minutes to restore image compared to about an hour for each step using Ghost 2003. Recently I used Disk Wizard from BratPE CD to successfully create image and restore to partition on a Win2k SP4 system. I'd like to know if it works if someone does try it. There's a possible fix for for this problem at, but I've not had the need to try it yet. Some have reported getting error message that a Seagate drive is required because Disk Wizard doesn't recognize the external USB Seagate drive. That would preferably be a HD the same size as your main drive. To have a crash proof backup for your Vista PC, all you need is Seagates Seatools or Maxtor's MaxBlast and a spare hard drive of sufficient size. I'm using two, identical Maxtor 160 gig SATA2 drives. No problem.after a restart everything was normal.
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I did note that Vista installed some kind of Generic driver on boot and wanted to be restarted.
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The cloning process completed as expected and the clone booted the PC with no problem. Acronis, by any other name is still Acronis. I'd expect the results to be the same too. It looks exactly like the MaxBlast program, also supplied by Acronis. I made the bootable media (CD) and booted up my Vista PC and started the clone.
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I've already opened a thread on FREE backup software for Vista. I'll see how that works in comparison to Maxtor's "Max Blast". I have the program but I had never used it to make the bootable media. If you could download the ISO for the bootable CD, it would be only about 40 megs, if NOT compressed.