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Paragon Drive Backup+Recovery 10 Free - good full drive imaging tool

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mouser:
Just tried this free drive backup tool and was very impressed.  I normally use Acronis but that's becoming a very bloated expensive tool.  This paragon tool did a very good job, was easy to use, and has a nice bootable rescue cd builder in the program.  Was fast too.

If you don't yet have a drive imaging tool, or especially if you have family members with desktop/laptop/netbook computers, and want a legal free good drive imaging tool to install on their computer, i highly recommend this  :Thmbsup:

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/

AndyM:
Can you "mount" an image and copy individual files from it, like you can with an Acronis .tib file?

Bamse:
I just tried this one last night. Pretty horrible compared to Macrium Reflect http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp I got an Acronis feeling about Paragon. Has more options though. 102mb+ vs. 30mb shows I guess. Reflect is quite a bit faster here but also do not check every file on hd to match exclusion options in Paragon, takes for ever. Functionality is pretty much the same for basic use - can't see why Paragon is better. File from Paragon was 23gb but Refelct one with less exclusions is 20gb. I used the one with *.tmp, *.old etc. Better compression I guess. May be why default is "high priority".

Also looked at free Acronis from Western Digital http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp only looked.

Paragon has a separate site dedicated to their free stuff btw. http://www.paragon-software.com/free/

AndyM - unless my memory has gotten worse then yes you can. Also in Reflect ;)

Curt:
and then comes the fourty dollar question; which is the better BackUp for my 32-bits Vista, the version 9 PRO, or the FREE version 10??

tomos:
and then comes the fourty dollar question; which is the better BackUp for my 32-bits Vista, the version 9 PRO, or the FREE version 10??
-Curt (October 30, 2009, 05:52 PM)
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or the free macrium one? (I havent tried it but there seems to be a few happy users here)

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