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Genie Backup Manager Professional V8.0 1 review
Genie-soft
Crashes & Burns
I used the "try before you buy" option and that worked out satisfactorily - enough so, that when I learned I would have to install a new hard drive - I opted the "buy" and paid the price - since that time, the product will not run and continually crashes. While I was a prospective customer, I got immediate help. Now that I am a customer, I get mediocre to no help. I must wait 24 hours each and ...
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Norton 360 All-In-One Security Annual Subscription - 3 PCs200 reviews
Windows, Microsoft XP Media Center Edition | Symantec, 2007
ABSOLUTELY THE BEST SECURITY SOFTWARE AVAILABLE. I LOVE IT
This software is second to none. I run a complete scan of my computer first thing every morning then Webroot Spysweeper WITHOUT the virus protection and then Webroot Window Washer before I do any work on my computer and I have not had any problems with my computer for almost 2 years. If you use a computer regularly, you know that 2 years without any problems at all is remarkable. The combination ...
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Acronis True Image Home V11.0 111 reviews
Windows | Acronis, 2007
Good Product for Non-Techie
I have been using Carbonite. It works quite well IF you remember to tag all the files you want backed up. I forgot my Quicken files and have paid dearly for that boo boo. A friend recommended Acronis to make a mirror image backup. I did one to an external drive. It works very well and only took about 40 min's for the initial backup. The program disk also serves as a boot disk if your op ...
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Absolute Sotware - LoJack for Laptops theft recovery service - 1 year protection
Windows | Absolute Software, 2007
LoJack for Laptops is a recovery service that enables law enforcement to retrieve stolen laptops. When you use this service software installed on your laptop works behind the scenes to silently and securely contact Absolute Software's Monitoring Center and in case of theft to report its location using any Internet connection. Should your laptop be stolen Absolute Software's Recovery Team not only tracks its location but also partners with local ...
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Norton Ghost 14.0 49 reviews
Windows | Symantec, 2008
Not without Flaws
I brought my pc in for some minor work .
While I was there I asked the repairman to install Norton Ghost 14.0.
He installed it, though he didn't really trust this updated version.
Like others have said it does have it's flaws.
I can't recommend it.
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Norton Ghost 12.0 [OLD VERSION] 42 reviews
Windows | Symantec, 2007
Ghost 12 Works Like it is Supposed To
I bought Ghost 12 to protect my data in the event of a catastrophic event, never anticipating one would occur. I recently lost the hard drive on my primary work lap top computer. Fortunately Dell replaced it free of charge and paid for the shipping. Unfortunately they can not replace all of my programs and data. I had been backing up via Ghost 12 to an external hard drive and that saved me ...
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PD+Rescue for iPod Win/Mac 20 reviews
Mac OS X, Windows | RE:LAUNCH, 2005
It works!!
My computer crashed and I lost all of my songs in my itunes playlist. I was afraid to connect my ipod to my computer for fear of itunes "syncing" it with an empty playlist and wiping out my ipod. After doing some research, I decided to try this product. IT WORKS!! It automaticaly blocks itunes from syncing and reads what is on your ipod. Then, you simply click "add to itunes" and it ...
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GetData Recover My Files 7 reviews
Windows | Channel Access, 2005
Great program.
I have used this program on four occasions and have been able to recover all the files on a formatted disk on two occasions, all the files on a USB memory stick and recover about 90% of the files I tried to recover from a completely crashed HD.
Like the other reviewers who were able to use this I think it is an amazing program. I have no idea why the one person never got it to work, but if ...
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Laplink PC Mover Moving Kit24 reviews
Windows, Microsoft XP Media Center Edition | Avanquest, 2006
Best product for the job
Forty-four applications on the old desktop. Six logical drives. Tons of serial numbers. Backed up the old machine using Acronis True Image. Built the new machine with matching drives (new ones were larger) using Acronis Disk Director. Migrated from XP Pro to XP Home (Dell doesn't offer XP Pro on new machines today). Swapped from FAT32 to NTDS. This is a one-way street, by the way.
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Paragon Drive Backup 8.5
Paragon Software Group
Paragon Drive Backup Personal has been designed from the ground up to provide the easiest and most complete way to create system and data backups. The easy to use wizards quickly guide you through the steps to create images of whole drives or individual partitions.
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Carbonite Online Back-Up 1 Year Version With $30 MIR 6 reviews
Windows | Carbonite, INC, 2007
Perfect backup service
I have sampled other backup solutions and this one is hands-down the best. I tried Mozy but it crashed on 2 computers. Carbonite worked well from day one and I bought a whole year; now am planning to use it on another PC as well. It is effortless and fast. Also, one of my favorite features is that it assigns each file in Windows explorer a colored dot based on that files backup status. So ...
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StompSoft PC BackUp 18 reviews
Windows | StompSoft, Inc., 2005
StompSoft PC BackUp
We have been using Backup MY PC for many years, and we recently upgraded to the new PC Backu UP program. The program works well, but the distribution cd is packed in a cardboard holder which compresses the cd side to side and after being in storage before shipping, it gradually bows the cd so it isn't flat. I had to download the program from their website to get it to install. Amazon gladly ...
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Norton Ghost 2003 [OLD VERSION]49 reviews
Windows | Symantec, 2002
Faithful service for almost 5 years
Bought in late 2002 after using previous versions, this is still the most reliable and fastest version ever. From win 95, 98 to winXP SP2, its a workhorse and does it job flawlessly.
I would like to upgrade to a newer version of Ghost and am investigating the pros and cons of doing so.
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Lavasoft Ad-Aware Plus Anti-Spyware [18 Month Subscription]5 reviews
Windows | Tri Synergy, 2007
No more Internet "spyware" with Ad-Aware
Ad-Aware is the most widely used and generally highest rated spyware removal product on the market. Having used Ad-Aware for several years and tried many competitors, such as Skybot Search and Destroy, I agree. Computers users who have not used this or similar products are always shocked by how many "spyware" cookies and tracers Ad-Aware finds on their drives that all of the leading anti-virus ...
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Tune Tools for iPod (Win/Mac)19 reviews
Windows, Mac OS X | ValuSoft, 2006
Fairly useless
I bought this to back up my iPod before I left the country. It worked a few times until it kept freezing. The patches on their webpage do not solve the problem either.
Their website is labyrinthian at best. There are definitely better products out their with more effective customer service (a contact link is practically buried) that don't want to install additional junk on your PC.
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Norton Ghost 12.02 reviews
Symantec
Good product for typical users
I bought this to backup my hard drive to a USB drive, which it will do but unforently it will not make that drive bootable even though it backs up the MSB. E-mailed and call sysmantec and they were of no help so I now have a back up of my drive but can't boot from it if my main drive dies.
Yes, I can boot from other USB drives, no problem.
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Data Backup 3 By Prosoft Engineering4 reviews
Macintosh | ProSoft Engineering
Larry Grinnell's MyMac.com Review
Everyone hates doing backups. I know I do. Like most utility software packages, products like this are ignored until it is too late, and your precious data is gone. It's funny how diligent I was at work (I suppose my job being at stake had something to do with it...), yet I almost never backed up anything at home. I've been playing the odds for a lot of years, and have so far been pretty lucky.
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Partition Commander 1016 reviews
Windows | Avanquest, 2007
pc10
All in all, the product did what I asked it to do. Although I found that it was a lot easier to boot from the disk and perform tasks from there. Under Vista Ultimate the Commander 10 would not allow me to combine the boot drive with another partition. However, it did alow me to combine the partitions once I had rebooted the machine with the Commander disk.
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EMC Retrospect 7.5 Professional for Windows20 reviews
Windows | Dantz
Loyal user for years, just keeps getting better
As a consultant that installs and maintains this product for many clients on both PC and Macintosh platforms I have watched the development and maturing of this excellent product into what I consider the best backup solution on the market.
I am sure there will be a fair number of negative reviews but if you read between the lines most of them can be traced to inept users not willing to pay ...
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EMC Retrospect Express HD14 reviews
Windows | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2006
Don't understand some of the reviews
You can definately choose to backup more that just the entire hd. You can choose individual folders if you want. My friend uses it to just back up one huge folder that has all his business files.
I must admit that I've never actually used it to restore anything yet so I can't testify how well it would do that, but it's been backing up my hd faithfully for over a year every Monday morning at ...
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