The installation process also allows you to create a bootable rescue disk (floppy or CD), which you'll need to reboot the PC and restore data after a hard disk crash. Installing Acronis True Image 8.0 is simple and takes just a few minutes. Given its many features and performance results, Acronis True Image is a great buy and easily our CNET Editors' Choice for disk-imaging technology. True Image also offers many tools not found in Ghost, including the ability to format and partition disks.
Like Ghost, True Image supports a variety of external media, including CD and DVD writers, as well as USB and FireWire drives. It costs about the same as Norton Ghost 9.0, but True Image is significantly faster and less taxing on your system resources during routine backups. Its interface is polished and easy to navigate wizards step you through complex backup and restore tasks.
Acronis True Image 8.0 is a speedy and powerful disk-imaging utility that copies the entire contents of your hard drive-data and operating system files, personalized settings, everything-onto another disk or disk partition, very useful when mirroring standard software configurations across new office desktops.
