Perfect Image Professional

I bought a copy of Perfect Image Professional for full price.

I purchased Perfect Image 12 almost 2 years ago, with the intent of using it. I didnt have an opportunity to use it until just recently, when I wanted to install an SSD in my laptop. Perfect Image did a quick job of backing up the partition, even though the interface was a bit complicated to navigate. I backed up the partition to an external 500GB hard drive, installed the SSD, put windows 7 on it(to be able to install the Perfect Image software) and ran the software. It rebooted into a DOS program and started to restore. This was at 9 PM, and I went to bed. When I got up the next morning ~530AM, it was still running, about 50% done and over 8 hours later. Needless to say, I was not impressed. I ended up doing a fresh install all the way.

Difficult to use

I have 64 bit Vista. Looked on the Amazon and Avanquest website, neither stated that the product does not support 64 bit.

the product is more for back ups than copying files. it couldnt even accomplish a simple task or migrating files to a new hardrive it crashed it and corrupted everything instead.

I am an IT consultant and have 10 to 12 computers running in various configurations and combinations. It is just too much work to continually build and rebuild machines without using an image to restore after the first build. I used Ghost for a number of years until version 9. The product just had become so bloated that it was barely useable. I want a slim product that can be launched from a USB drive, backup or restore, to different size hard drives if necessary, then shut down the machine and have the machine boot without issue.

Buy one of their product once and the will hound with special offer E-mails twice a day for the rest of your life! Unsubscribing from their mailing list does no good, the SPAM just keeps coming!

I wish I wouldve checked out Acronis TrueImage before I bought Perfect Image. This software is very so-so, and not anywhere near as simple and convenient compared to TrueImage. Furthermore, the boot/recovery program whether from CD or hard drive, fails to work 50% of the time whether from not booting or not recognizing your hard drives. The boot program for True Image is slicker and much more polished and is nearly the same as the Windows version (done in a nice Vista style) whereas Perfect Image gives you a clunkier and less polished UI when booting directly to it.

Does what I want.

I COULD NOT GET THE PROGRAM TO RUN ON MY WINDOW 8.1 OS!