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.

Difficult to use

Returned

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.

Does what I want.

This software looks to be a pre windows-7, and pre 64-bit version...

thats it

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.

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

the product is more for back ups than copying files. it couldnt even accomplish a simple task or migrating files to a new hardrive it crashed it and corrupted everything instead.