

Understanding the difference in expected space utilization between source and destination drives on Windows 7/Vista I included a partial quote for Win7/Vista. For an explanation as to why the copy is smaller, please go to the following Casper Knowledge Base links. It sounds like all is good, if Casper says copy was successful at the completion, you are good. I want to run Casper because I’ve read enough to feel that Acronis is just not entirely reliable, and it can’t hurt to have a second, different backup. I am already using Acronis TrueImage Home 2009 to back up to an additional drive (F) I had installed in my computer, and it seems to be running OK, although I’ve never actually installed a new C drive and tested it. Unfortunately, unless there’s something I don’t understand (quite likely), I think I’m not going to be able to take advantage of the ability to boot from a Casper backup, because my computer is so old that the BIOS does not recognize additional hard drives or external drives.

I imagine such catastrophic failures by a software company are extremely rare, but it really was disturbing to read about. If you haven’t read the reviews, Acronis TrueImage Home 2012 is not just buggy and unreliable, but it also wrecks your computer. I just wanted to make sure that they hadn’t done something in the new version that made it worse, like Acronis has done.
