It is a little slow to boot but had all drivers to recognize my hard drive controllers and even USB 3 external drive

Remember, when you lose a hard drive or get hit by ransomware, it is not only your programs you lose, but your pictures, email addresses, settings, favorites, etc.

After all, Russians, having access to complete, cloned backups of your entire hard drive, and it's data, you think that would be bad enough... but to make the product 'unfriendly," and downright "mean" to use, is beyond my comprehension

After losing my hard drive, I got Acronis.

Create backup schemes and complete image of your hard drive.

Furthermore, it's easy enough to encrypt an external SSD, so the only advantage in using the cloud service is that you don't have to worry about losing a separate drive

Used second time to clone and swap out laptop hard drive with newer SSD

Quick and easy to use to clone working system hard drive

Two months ago I used the product ... here are the results:I'm a long time user of Ghost the corporate version where I make cold offline images by booting from a CD/DVD and dump the image to a separate internal hard drive or external USB 2 or 3 drive.

This software installed perfectly and within 15 minutes, I had a complete image backup of all partitions on my solid state system drive.

Does what they advertise; I have used this (different versions) to recover data or simply move my boot drive from a smaller to a larger or a faster drive - I just used this version to my my wife's laptop - her inexpensive laptop used a 1 TB 5400 RPM drive (yes, 5400 RPM!

Image backup was to external USB hard drive

I was cloning a 1tb hard drive to a much smaller Solid State Drive 250gb

It was easy to clone my hard drive, or do other things to an external hard drive attached by USB, or SATA, or in other ways

Final thoughts:I also had to restore the laptop I was reloading on to a new hard drive after a windows 10 update left it unbootable

Put the new hard drive in the laptop and I was done

So, I changed backup to local on a removable hard drive.

I tried Paragon Drive Copy and it crashed my original hard drive.

The problem is my ghost v11 is 32bit and can't recognize hard drives over 2TB

I brought to clone a hard drive to a bigger hard drive

, I had three clones of each drive stored away, every while, week or so, I would make new clones on the stored drives, then suddenly my computer went crazy, nothing would work, I opened it, removed the SSD and HDD and replaced it with a cloned drive, rebooted and my computer was like new, true I may have lost anything I had done in the short time between cloning these replacement drives, but I never even noticed, email is with gmail and can be accessed and many programs keep data when you are signed out, "on line

great program to clone hard drives