Does what is says Having read the other reviews here and elsewhere I gave it a whirl.
My purchase was due to having installed windows a fresh due to some dual boot issues and I simply could not be bothered doing it all again.
One 400GB hard drive to be divided, already running windows XP - Arconis installed quickly no problems, scanned the drives within 10 seconds, gave me automated options and upon chopping the disk into a 100gb system drive and a 300gb data drive I hit commit and it was done, reeboot required... more info
Good but Acronis support poor First got the software and had terrible problems getting it to install.
I contacted Acronis support but received no reply other than an automated response. Acronis have a premium pay per answer support service so I guess you'll get little backup without paying. I finally found the answer on my own. Acronis DDS is incompatible with HP Backup software. This has to be removed before installing Acronis. When it was finally installed the software was relatively easy to use and fast in operation.
Easy for inexperienced users I like many others needed to increase the size of my C drive as I was running low on free space. Was a bit nervous about doing the deed, but Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 made the task very simple. Using the wizard I made my selections and all ran well. I didn't encounter any problems - the software did report that I had bad sectors on my second disk, but this was merely for information purposes. When the wizard had ended, it took me a while to realise that I need to Commit (via the icon or menu)... more info
DO NOT INSTALL THIS SOFTWARE I wanted to partition my hard drive, so bought and installed Disk Director Suite. It partitioned the drive OK but corrupted the MBR, rendering my (one drive) machine unuseable. I had to buy another hard drive, place that and the original drive in a second machine, and then laboriously recover the data using another (excellent) program called File Scavenger. Then I put the two drives back in the PC and reinstalled the OS. If I hadn't found File Scavenger, I'd have been stuffed. YOU HAVE BEEN... more info
