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Windows 8 and Acronis
This is annoying...paid good money earlier this year to upgrade to Acronis
TrueImage 2012 - and the windows 8 setup wizard now tells me I have to uninstall it as it won't work with windows 8. The Acronis website promises an update "some time in the future". Now that's just Wrong. How long have we known windows 8 was coming for? Are Acronis asleep, or planning to charge for an "upgrade" - or is MS trying to force their own backup on us? Time, as they say, will tell... |
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Windows 8 and Acronis
On 11/6/2012 5:20 AM, Peter Roe wrote:
This is annoying...paid good money earlier this year to upgrade to Acronis TrueImage 2012 - and the windows 8 setup wizard now tells me I have to uninstall it as it won't work with windows 8. The Acronis website promises an update "some time in the future". Now that's just Wrong. How long have we known windows 8 was coming for? Are Acronis asleep, or planning to charge for an "upgrade" - or is MS trying to force their own backup on us? Time, as they say, will tell... Acronis likes to charge for "meaningful" updates. I gave up on it after several best forgotten problems. Ghost was another one. These days, I would likely use Linux from a bootable CD, and see how that works out with win 8, assuming that something included in win 8 could not get the job done. |
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Windows 8 and Acronis
The Acronis website promises an update "some time in the future". Now that's just Wrong. How long have we known windows 8 was coming for? Are Acronis asleep, or planning to charge for an "upgrade" - or is MS trying to force their own backup on us? I had to upgrade to 2013 and can only use it on one computer as activation has been tigtened up. The price I paid for the full version was more than what I paid for windows 8 I then discovered EaseUS http://www.easeus.com/?gclid=CIPV4tmeurMCFYZaMgodOgwAkg I was thrilled with it as it looked very elegant. When I restored an image from D to C with the CD it worked but my D partition got wiped out! I purchased Paragon Backup at a discounted price. However I missed the elegance and reliability of Acronis and bought 2 more licences at 29 dollars each. FD |
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Windows 8 and Acronis
Peter Roe wrote:
This is annoying...paid good money earlier this year to upgrade to Acronis TrueImage 2012 - and the windows 8 setup wizard now tells me I have to uninstall it as it won't work with windows 8. Uninstall it and then reinstall it in Windows 8, it may work. -- XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/ |
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Windows 8 and Acronis
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 06:02:57 -0500, charlie wrote:
These days, I would likely use Linux from a bootable CD, and see how that works out with win 8, assuming that something included in win 8 could not get the job done. Clonezilla works fine with any file system, but has a couple of disadvantages - I find Redo faster and more flexible. Neither of course will allow the recovery of individual files from the backed up image(es). |
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Windows 8 and Acronis
"Peter Roe" wrote in message o.uk... This is annoying...paid good money earlier this year to upgrade to Acronis TrueImage 2012 - and the windows 8 setup wizard now tells me I have to uninstall it as it won't work with windows 8. The Acronis website promises an update "some time in the future". Now that's just Wrong. How long have we known windows 8 was coming for? Are Acronis asleep, or planning to charge for an "upgrade" - or is MS trying to force their own backup on us? Time, as they say, will tell... I've had Acronis 2010 Home since 2009, and haven't had it installed since shortly after purchasing it. Using the install CD as a boot CD, it has served me well with XP, Vista, Win7, and Win8, 32 and 64 bit versions. By booting from the CD, I can create a disk image in a short period of time and not worry about whether or not it will install. I can create an 85GB image in ~45 minutes, and restore that image in about the same length of time (maybe just a little longer). I just did a complete image restore yesterday on my Acer with Win8 with 3 partitions (System, Boot, and factory recovery), and it took about an hour. I had a larger drive I wanted it all on, and for some reason, cloning wouldn't work (although it has on the past with other machines). I think maybe the recovery partition may have something to do with it; not real sure and don't really care since the image restore worked just fine. -- SC Tom |
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Windows 8 and Acronis
On 06-Nov-12 9:20 PM, Peter Roe wrote:
This is annoying...paid good money earlier this year to upgrade to Acronis TrueImage 2012 - and the windows 8 setup wizard now tells me I have to uninstall it as it won't work with windows 8. The Acronis website promises an update "some time in the future". Now that's just Wrong. How long have we known windows 8 was coming for? Are Acronis asleep, or planning to charge for an "upgrade" - or is MS trying to force their own backup on us? Time, as they say, will tell... Did you check when you bought it if it had W8 support? I don't think anybody guarantees their software against future OS upgrades. And as you might guess, ATI 2012 actually came out in 2011 sometime - I purchased that version on 24 August 2011 myself. I think you'll find this was B4 W8 evaluation vergins were available to toy with, and by no means was the design of W8 tied down to anything then. I've now upgraded to ATI Home 2013 for under $40 he http://www.acronis.com.au/homecomput...cts/trueimage/ Runs fine in Windows 8 Pro (Retail Boxed version) Already cloned my W8 installation drive and made regular backups with it too. |
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Windows 8 and Acronis
Use Macrium Reflect for making backup copies of your Windows (plus
programs) partition. With the free version... You can make backups from within Windows, quickly. Restoring requires the CD and more time, but restores happen much less frequently. And you can retrieve files from an archive from within Windows. It's just excellent for making incremental copies of your new installation. I've been cloning the windows partition since Windows 95. Macrium Reflect is the easiest and most functional. -- Peter Roe seasidepeter nothere.co.uk wrote: This is annoying...paid good money earlier this year to upgrade to Acronis TrueImage 2012 - and the windows 8 setup wizard now tells me I have to uninstall it as it won't work with windows 8. The Acronis website promises an update "some time in the future". Now that's just Wrong. How long have we known windows 8 was coming for? Are Acronis asleep, or planning to charge for an "upgrade" - or is MS trying to force their own backup on us? Time, as they say, will tell... |
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Windows 8 and Acronis
Free Paragon did just fine here. "John Doe" wrote in message ... Use Macrium Reflect for making backup copies of your Windows (plus programs) partition. With the free version... You can make backups from within Windows, quickly. Restoring requires the CD and more time, but restores happen much less frequently. And you can retrieve files from an archive from within Windows. It's just excellent for making incremental copies of your new installation. I've been cloning the windows partition since Windows 95. Macrium Reflect is the easiest and most functional. -- Peter Roe seasidepeter nothere.co.uk wrote: This is annoying...paid good money earlier this year to upgrade to Acronis TrueImage 2012 - and the windows 8 setup wizard now tells me I have to uninstall it as it won't work with windows 8. The Acronis website promises an update "some time in the future". Now that's just Wrong. How long have we known windows 8 was coming for? Are Acronis asleep, or planning to charge for an "upgrade" - or is MS trying to force their own backup on us? Time, as they say, will tell... |
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Windows 8 and Acronis
Joe wrote:
Free Paragon did just fine here. When I did a Win7 8 upgrade test using one of the pre-release versions of Win8, it refused Paragon; said it was incompatible. That was about the only thing it refused. Reading about Acronis in this thread I was concluding that it was refusing quite a few image-making software; maybe the whole lot, in order to prevent restores with them. Nice to know that suspicion is proved untrue. Ed |
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Windows 8 and Acronis
"Peter Roe" wrote:
This is annoying...paid good money earlier this year to upgrade to Acronis TrueImage 2012 - and the windows 8 setup wizard now tells me I have to uninstall it as it won't work with windows 8. The Acronis website promises an update "some time in the future". Now that's just Wrong. How long have we known windows 8 was coming for? Are Acronis asleep, or planning to charge for an "upgrade" - or is MS trying to force their own backup on us? Time, as they say, will tell... Many software vendors have been burned several times by relying on alpha, beta, and preview releases under which to test their products where they worked only to have Microsoft yank the rug out from under them by making a significant change in the release version that renders their product unusable or crippled. So many now wait until Microsoft actually releases Windows so they actually have a known quantity against which they can code their product. They're done with wasting their resources trying to sync the release of their compatible version when Microsoft makes changes that screw them over. It costs money to allocate resources for concurrent development only to have that effort and cost trashed because the other party made incompatible changes. Instead they wait until Microsoft actually releases something forcing a commital to a base code level, then they develop against a known entity. When did Acronis release version 2012 of TrueImage? August 2011. And when did Microsoft release Windows 8? October 2012. That's more than a year later when Windows 8 showed up (see above why many software vendors no longer aim at a moving target due to the cost). Similarly, you expect a current release of a product to support hardware that won't show up until sometime later? I've heard ATI 2012 doesn't support the Intel x79/c600 chipsets that came out AFTER the release of ATI 2012. So "earlier this year" you had no clue that you would get impelled to migrate to Windows 8? What did Windows 8 give you that is a critical requirement that obviated the use of your current and working setup? Did you see Windows 8 listed as a supported platform for TrueImage 2012? ATI 2012 does list Windows 8 as a supported platform. Since you choose to expend both the effort and expense of upgrading the OS platform, guess now you'll have to decide whether or not to do the same with your utility suite. |
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