Perfect Image Professional

Here are the advantages and disadvantages.

I Purchased Perfect Imageon August 2, 2008 (Order# 1019051984). Product received Saturday August 30, 2008. Four weeks to deliver; not a good start.

I bought this to do more partion management than Vista provides and my old program, Partion Magic, does not play well with Vista. It works fairly well but there are several things that it will not do like restore individual files or folders nor explore a saved image. Also you need to be aware that you need the latest version 10.1 because 10.0 doesnt work with Vista eithe!

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.

I purchased Perfect Image 12 almost 2 years ago, with the intent of using it. I didnt have an opportunity to use it until just recently, when I wanted to install an SSD in my laptop. Perfect Image did a quick job of backing up the partition, even though the interface was a bit complicated to navigate. I backed up the partition to an external 500GB hard drive, installed the SSD, put windows 7 on it(to be able to install the Perfect Image software) and ran the software. It rebooted into a DOS program and started to restore. This was at 9 PM, and I went to bed. When I got up the next morning ~530AM, it was still running, about 50% done and over 8 hours later. Needless to say, I was not impressed. I ended up doing a fresh install all the way.

Difficult to use

good product.i purchased it for its cloning ability.the only thing is when

thats it

Returned

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.