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Pre-purchase question

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Hello,

I am thinking buying Acronis Backup and recovery.
I would like to know if in a case in which I have to reformat my hard drive, I can avoid the whole process of reinstalling the OS, activate it and install all the programs and worse of all, customization..

The possible answers are:

A. Definitely it works like a charm, just have to make sure you follow the procedure right
B. Nope, there is no such a thing
C. There is such a thing, but this product won't do it.
D. Yes but the process is sticky; you can get stuck in the middle and after a number of failed attempts you just give up and go the traditional way (reinstall OS and the whole stuff).

I the answer is C. please recommend.

Thanks

Tuli

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Acronis B & R is supposed to be the business edition. Acronis True Image Home is for home users. Both will do what you want. Whichever you choose, be sure to do an actual restore to a spare hard drive to make sure you don't have any hardware that the software doesn't like.
There is a Trial version for just such a purpose.

If you want cou can buy Acronis Universal Restore module, whit this module you can restore your whole image to every hardware without reinstall anything. The only thing you have to do is to reactivate windows. This module is available foro both Workstation and Server editions.

So does this mean that I can create a restore disk even with the trial version to test out if it will see an image on my network storage drive??

i think yes...

Thanks, actually I just found a page in the knowledge base saying that you can do restore during the trial period. I will give that a go..