Perfect Image Professional

I wish I wouldve checked out Acronis TrueImage before I bought Perfect Image. This software is very so-so, and not anywhere near as simple and convenient compared to TrueImage. Furthermore, the boot/recovery program whether from CD or hard drive, fails to work 50% of the time whether from not booting or not recognizing your hard drives. The boot program for True Image is slicker and much more polished and is nearly the same as the Windows version (done in a nice Vista style) whereas Perfect Image gives you a clunkier and less polished UI when booting directly to it.

You have got to be kidding. Do not try this on a USB3 drive. It will not work. Cannot believe that Avanquest does not trumpet this non-capability on their site. Sure it is in the small print, BUT the market has moved to USB3.0 The interface is fine for me, but I need the 3.0 capability.

Found a better program.

Still using after 5 years

thats it

works the best backup software that i have, ive use it to restore my computer and worked excellent

I realize that my review is not about this product, but I think it is relevant to potential purchasers of Avanquest products. I do not know anything about this particular program, but have had considerable difficulty with Avanquest as detailed below.

Horrible program! The interface is all in super geek engineer TERMINOLOGY. I have NO IDEA what Im doing or what anything means. The help files are pathetic - also in engineer-eeze so they are worthless. Cant find any help for error messages.

Way too much for Vista. Slows everything down and took 13 hours in safe mode to do total backup.

I am an IT consultant and have 10 to 12 computers running in various configurations and combinations. It is just too much work to continually build and rebuild machines without using an image to restore after the first build. I used Ghost for a number of years until version 9. The product just had become so bloated that it was barely useable. I want a slim product that can be launched from a USB drive, backup or restore, to different size hard drives if necessary, then shut down the machine and have the machine boot without issue.