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Acronis True Image 8.0

By Jeff Bertolucci, CNET.com on 03 February 2005

Acronis True Image 8.0 is a first-class imaging program that makes it easy to copy the contents of a hard drive to removable media or to a separate disk or partition. We recommend it.

User rating:8

Comments (22)

  • banderasky gave 7/10 on 01/04/2009 16:05

    • Good: Famous brand!
    • Bad: Expensive!

    Free Partition Master Alternative EASEUS Partition Master is available, why should I pay for Acronis?

  • thecomputergenius gave 4/10 on 27/09/2007 04:43

    • Good: easy
    • Bad: way too long

    I used to like this product but for some strange reason when I use it on a Dell 478 board it takes 5 hours to clone

  • jimbo gave 10/10 on 07/07/2007 06:33

    • Good: Easy to use. Gets all files- even open ones.

    No program will work on all PCs or all configurations. This is the easiest and most user friendly program on the market. Anyone that has issues with it is either a) a Norton employee or b) someone that should take their PC to a professional and stop messing with it.

  • cosmian gave 3/10 on 05/04/2007 07:32

    So my hard drive crashes and I use True Image 8 to restore the image. I have, on an external hard drive two separate images of the whole hard drive. The most recent comes up "Image archive [blabla] is corrupted. Please choose another file." So I choose the older one. SAME THING. (Like the experience of others, when True Image created the image, it said it checked the it and found it good. Acronis fails both times. I'm screwed.

  • papernush gave 3/10 on 03/11/2006 18:42

    • Good: Fast and fairly easy to use.
    • Bad: Erratic, buggy behaviour on anything but the most simple of tasks. Resulted in a lot of bad data. Luckilly I had backed up data beforehand and was just testing it.

    Too inconsistent. May have some features that Ghost doesn't have but is not in the same league for reliability.

  • sanjay gave 9/10 on 11/09/2006 19:59

    it is very powerfull utility for partitioning.

  • hendry gave a review on 15/04/2006 05:42

    Do not use!

    Did a clone of main notebook drive to usb notebook drive and it corrupted both drives!!!

  • Anonymous gave 1/10 on 30/03/2006 17:54

    What it says is what you get. A true image fast

  • Anonymous gave a review on 18/02/2006 13:49

    Image Checks OK - But corrupt

    Backup with no errors to USB HD. Image verifies OK after backup. When trying to restore gives Corrupt Image. Used hours now to fix problem to no avail.

    Ghost 2003 works ok on same machine: Has never failed.

    An Image Backup that verifies corrupt Images as OK, that's really bad.

    The money wasted is nothing compared to loosing your data. DO NOT USE True Image: Even the forum is full of Corrupt Image messages.

    Geir Ove

  • DaveS gave 1/10 on 25/01/2006 07:40

    experienced good results!

    If I had these experiences I wouldn't recommend it either. Some of the ones I have were with version 6. Version 8 has worked flawless. I've imaged and restored over 70 pcs and 10 server primary root drives with only two errors and those were my fault. Some problems I found were improper permission settings, trying to image to a domain controller, and not enough free space. I create and restore images across the network with no problems and usually within 12-15 minutes for about 10 GIGs of info.

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