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    FirstWare Recovery Pro 2004... anyone using this software?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by talkin73, Nov 21, 2005.

  1. talkin73

    talkin73 Notebook Guru

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    http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050620/index.html

    This is a review of FirstWare Recovery Pro 2004 and a link to their site is here:

    http://www.phoenix.com/en/Products/...stWare/FirstWare+Recover+Pro+2004/default.htm

    Seems like a very interesting option for backup and recovery. Based on the review at Toms, it seems like:

    PROS
    Not too expensive
    Very fast backup and restore
    Very reliable backup and restore
    Backup occurs in the background
    Their tests indicate essentially no system slow down during routine use or at bootup when using this software

    CONS
    Uses up nearly 1/3 of your HD space for a hidden backup partition :eek:
    No optional backup to an external HD (so if your HD fails completely, you're out of luck)

    I doubt I'll use all 60GB of my HD so I might try this out. It sounds great for situations where you have installed software that causes problems with your system that you can't fix or if you get a virus. My only hesitation is that I have a firewall behind my router and I use McAfee for virus scanning, so my biggest problem would be a major problem software install that I decide the easiest thing is to restore from yesterday's backup.

    Thoughts from any users or other opinions?
     
    talkin73, Nov 21, 2005
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    Shagrath Notebook Consultant

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    are you not using windows restore because its a hog? and using a different restore to hog the hdd?
     
    Shagrath, Nov 21, 2005
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    talkin73 Notebook Guru

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    How would system restore help you in the event of total data loss or corruption? It's my understanding that system restore built into Windows assumes that Windows is working to some degree and you can boot the computer. I also thought that when you use system restore it can't necessarily restore everything... but rather critical system and app files. Have you used it during a serious data loss and found it totally restores everything?
     
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