Hi, I learned all I knew about backups and Ghost 2003 from Rad and his forum. Yet, When I needed a backup solution for Vista, I bought Acronis without consulting this forum first! 

If I did, I would have used the free Clonezilla Live CD. Hopefully, the Acronis $20 rebate will go through and the Acronis experience will be cheap.

Nevertheless, after working with the Acronis product for a few weeks I wrote a review that can be seen here:
http://www1.epinions.com/review/Acronis_TRUE_IMAGE_HOME_2009_DVD_WIN_2000_XP_VIS...

In a nutshell, it works for my Vista laptop but has many problems.
I agree with Rad, there are better (and Cheaper) products out there.

Rad and friends on this forum: thanks for keeping this great forum.

Update:
using a bootable CD with up to date Acronis True Image 2009, I made a number of backups and a couple of restores of Vista. I cloned HD once upgrading to larger HD. The only glitch was Acronis made the same size of output partition in the new disk as input partition in the old, smaller disk (Ghost 2003 that I use for XP PCs doesn't limit partition size). But it was easy to adjust the partition size in Vista. That confirms what I wrote in my review: Acronis works if one is careful, uses limited futures, and bootable CD.

I have not tried but, I'm thinking the bootable Acronis CD should not stop one from using it on more that PC.

friendly_jacek wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2011 at 1:05pm:


I confirmed that. Used it on 2 PCs already.