What to use instead of Macrium Reflect

antspants said:

lol what?

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In their own words....

Thank you for your interest in our products. We are not a formal company, we are just a software development team in china.

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Bree said:

In their own words....

Hasleo Software Forums - Company Information?

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The way I see it, is there are enough genius security experts out there that want to reverse engineer software for the accreditation of exposing backdoors and security risks for me to want to worry.
And what about AOEMEI? Safe?
I tried Acronis. My system at the time was 80GB. I checked that the input was all correct, it was trying to backup 900GB of files. I couldn't work out why. It initially had the right size but kept increasing every coupe of minutes until it was around 900GB. Slow… so slow. And odd.

antspants said:

And what about AOEMEI?

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Based in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China

AOMEI International Network Limited​

Address : Unit 83, 3/F, Yau Lee Centre, No.45 Hoi Yuen Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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Same solution with Hasleo , for AoMEI also ; only using the bootmedia .............these programs are not installed !

Hi folks

just use the bootable stand alone version of GPARTED (100% Free) -- even if you can't use or have never used Linux. The GUI looks almost identical to Windows partition managers and it can copy any sort of file system (no need to even format target disk) . Has a command line too.

100% no problem in manipulating Windows NTFS partitions etc. Simply create bootable USB from downloadable iso and you are in business.






Copy partition is fine and cloning disks OK too -- in the command line simply type dd if=<input file / partition> of=<output file or partition> bs=1024M status=progress.

Use /dev/sda etc for cloning the whole disk. Partition copying -- simply from the GUI select copy and then paste to unallocated space on target drive -- no formatting etc required - it handles pretty well all known file systems.

For backup of partitions simply set the of<parameters> to a file. Then on restore use that as if=parameter>.

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BBC series " "Meerkat Manor" .

Seemples" !!!!!!. It works !!!!.




Cheers
jimbo

Megahertz said:

Also to consider OO Disk Image.
Macrium now cost US$80 and OO Disk Image V17 cost US$50
Search for V. 17 giveaway

O&O DiskImage 17 Review | BestBackupReviews.com

O&O DiskImage 17 Review - A solid backup app allowing use of disk image and file backups, one-click imaging, disk cloning & system migrations

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Except for O&O ShutUp10 - i wouldn't use their other software (especially critical apps) - even if it was free. Even tho, for quite some time it used to be a top recommendation of mine (for O&O Defrag). Reason being: bad/incompetent support (something you pay for while buying an app) - which end-up giving me head-aches - while dealing with the aftermath - since i was the one who recommend it (the issues in question was software related - so using the support which they paid for seemed like the go to - yet, the ones from O&O didn't seem to know how to solve the issue or even bother to look for a reasonable solution - other than a refund - which can be far from a viable solution while trying to solve issues caused by the app). Now imagine a back-up tool causing serious issue - and while calling for support - they'll just try to brush you off by offering you a refund - as the only solution to your issue,

Has anyone here tried the "MiniTool ShadowMaker" or "Copy Disk Wizard" features included with MiniTool Partition Wizard?

antspants said:

lol what?

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Computer says Hasleo is part of EasyUEFI which is a software company located in Chengdu, China.

Company Information?

Still laughing?

It’s the way you said it, came across really bigoted. Still does. Yeah, I’m laughing. You added no explanation, just that it was Chinese so cheers

Steve C said:

Hasleo is a Chinese firm. Bold decision I say if you choose to install it.

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And all that link shows me is that someone asked a question and they we’re up-front and honest with their answer. Oh the conspiracy .

LesFerch said:

Has anyone here tried the "MiniTool ShadowMaker" or "Copy Disk Wizard" features included with MiniTool Partition Wizard?

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See my post earlier. I have used both. I haven't done a system image restore using ShadowMaker but I can confirm that the bootable rescue disk works (I made a small partition at the front of my backup drive and have it installed there). I have also used the Copy Disk Wizard feature on Partition Wizard...it works but I still ended up having to do a Windows Repair by Reinstall as something happened to the recovery partition.

Ah, another cry for HELP! Answering cries for help is what I've done for my entire working life, going all the way back to 1964.

David, I wish I could sit down with you, pull out my Flash Drive with "Ghost 11.5"on it and show you just how fast, reliable and FREE doing HD backups can really be. NO downloads, NO installation to your PC, and no freakin' fees or licenses. Just Fast, Reliable backups. And restores are just as easy.
Cheers Mate!
TM

TechnoMage2021 said:

Ah, another cry for HELP! Answering cries for help is what I've done for my entire working life, going all the way back to 1964.

David, I wish I could sit down with you, pull out my Flash Drive with "Ghost 11.5"on it and show you just how fast, reliable and FREE doing HD backups can really be. NO downloads, NO installation to your PC, and no freakin' fees or licenses. Just Fast, Reliable backups. And restores are just as easy.
Cheers Mate!
TM

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Nobody gives an iota about your trolling posts on this.

My Acer laptop has a recovery 'disk' but as it is a ROM there is no point backing it up as it can't be restored!

I've likely made this point previously, so no repeats after this.

There are at least two freeware programmes easily available that will BLOCK any outgoing activity (ie. phone-homes) from your PC until you let it out. I would expect there are quite a few more. Free Firewall or TinyWall both do this on a highly detailed, granular level. This actually engages both Google and MS to deny access to their supposedly accessible websites because they can't log one's IP address and match it to whatever activity one is doing - snoopy, snoopy of them of course.

So I load FF as part of StartUp, with the default "Don't allow till I say so". Consequently using Macrium, Hasleo or Aomei is free of snoop risk, in my view. For those who may wonder if FF or TW themselves are snoopware, the response is that these programmes block themselves as well until you decide. I've been using FF for over 5 years now and have not seem any untoward phone-home that I haven't tagged.

I've been testing MiniTool's ShadowMaker. It can install a recovery version to Windows boot manager but every option is disabled!

It can create a rescue media but that turns out to be unbootable. I used the USB thumbdrive that wotks for Macrium Reflect and DiskGenius but it wont' boot from Windows recovery options or from my Bios.

perdrix said:

I loved it but I'm twitching at the ongoing cost of leasing a minimum of 3 licenses (or do I need extra licenses for virtual machines)?

So what are the viable alternatives? I don't count Acronis Backup as viable as it is well expensive and never worked properly for me anyway, never mind the fact that it's awfully slow.

Thanks
David

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I'll continue to use the Free version until it no longer functions or I no longer function, whichever comes first.

Besides Macrium i also use R-Drive Image. It is very reliable and a no fuss almost as good as Macrium alternative. It has been around for many years and never given me problems.

I've always found this free software to be helpful when dealing with most everything dealing with hard drives. DiskGenius: Data Recovery, Partition Manager, Backup & Disk Utilities

The free version of DiskGenius does not do backups.