Ha! Maybe Richard and Kue BOTH work for Acronis, eh, JJ?



"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Acronis TrueImage HOME 10.0 has never failed me. I experiment a lot and
> sometimes restore images on a daily basis. I have never had a failure.
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> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
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> "JJ" <JJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>> Stay away from this product. I bought Acronis True Image 10 Home from
>> tigerdirect.ca and installed it on my Vista 64-bit PC. I took backups
>> regularly - once a week. I never bothered to verify the integrity of the
>> backups. When I did, the product always reported that the backups were
>> corrupt. By this time my 30 days for getting a refund from TigerDirect
>> had
>> passed. So, I contacted Acronis who told me to upgrade to a new build
>> that I
>> can download from their website. Same problem with the new build -
>> corrupt
>> backups. Acronis said they couldn't give me a refund since I didn't buy
>> the
>> product from them. I contacted TigerDirect who told me that they can't
>> give
>> me a refund either since the 30 days have passed. The product is useless
>> to
>> me now.
>>
>> Another problem with this product is that it doesn't play well with
>> Vista.
>> Once you start a backup task, you can't change it's priority. You always
>> get
>> an error message saying you don't have enough privileges to do this.
>>
>> And I received an email from Acronis a couple of days ago saying I can
>> buy
>> the new version 11 at 40% off. Some consolation.
>>
>> Lousy product. Lousy service from the manufacturer and retailer.
>>
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