Perfect Image Professional

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.

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.

I bought a copy of Perfect Image Professional for full price.

Does what I want.

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.

This arrived earlier than expected, and did what I wanted it to do. Cloned my existing HDD to a new one in about an hour. New HDD works great. Good product.

Returned

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.

I have 64 bit Vista. Looked on the Amazon and Avanquest website, neither stated that the product does not support 64 bit.