Plus Pack for ATIH 2012

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Hi everybody,
I guess that the policy of Acronis is quite crazy : it is necessary to purchase an add-on (ATIH Plus Pack) to be able to restore his system when it works under Windows because the Acronis bootable CD is under Linux and have no Windows drivers.
Just a look :
- 1) probably all users of Acronis are working under Windows and want to be able to restore easily without a long procedure to prepare a bootable CD for Windows,
- 2) Norton Ghost is able to restore under Windows with a bootable CD, why Acronis is unable to do the same ?
I have a dream : Acronis people adds Plus Pack within ATIH 2012 for free.

Tue, 09/06/2011 - 08:26
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Unfortunately, you're dreaming of a return to the past when Acronis used to provide free TIH accessory downloads like the BartPE addon for creating bootable Windows PE builds. Since the company is now dominated by its "marketeering experts", those days are gone, I'm afraid. It was cutting into the "Plus Pack" profits.

Don't blame the product's originators and developers. They have nothing to say about it. It's like asking for a return to a time when new product versions weren't released until AFTER they had been tested for solid core performance. Fat chance! Beating the competitition with gimmicks, frills and "eye candy" that may or may not actually work is much more important.

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P.S.: Actually you do have Windows drivers and there are other ways to create your own Windows PE build, but they're quite technical. (See the reboot.pro web site for example.) I could go on at some length about the "for dummies" trends that are pervasive throughout the world of Windows applications development, but the less said about that the better I suppose.

Tue, 09/06/2011 - 11:09
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You're right, I have a dream. I just say that competitors like Norton Ghost is able to create easily a bootable CD which allows to restore under Windows, but this competitor is unable to create a differential back-up, it just back-up on an incremential mode. Nothing is perfect.
I tried to restore with the standard recovery Acronis bootable CD but it works under Linux and have no Windows drivers, so it is impossible to restore after booting on this CD.
I do not agree with "marketeering experts" they are not experts but only "vendors of soup" not users.

Tue, 09/06/2011 - 15:27