Perfect Image Professional

First off, the product page makes no mention of the version number: the version of Avanquest Perfect Image on sale here is 11 and Avanquest Perfect Image 11 is NOT compatible with Windows Vista 64-bit! This review is on the Avanquest Perfect Image 11 - if you're a Windows XP or a Vista 32-bit user, read on.---When I saw the average user rating for Perfect Image 11, I navigated away from its product page faster than I was able hit the Back button on my browser. I discovered, however, that the ratings for the alternative products such as  Acronis True Image , Paragon Drive Backup , Powerquest Drive Image , and  Norton Ghost  were less than stellar as well. I decided to give Perfect Image a whirl - and I'm glad I did.Perfect Image does a superb job of making a clone (image) of your entire hard drive!Hard Drive Image----------------For making an image (clone) of your hard drive, there's no need to install Perfect Image. Simply boot up with the CD into a GUI interface. The GUI isn't as pretty as Vista (or even XP), but it gets the job done.Here's the *caveat*:There's NO surefire way to acertain that Perfect Image has successfully made an image of a hard drive other than to TEST the image by performing a restore of the image and verifying that the restored hard drive does in fact work (-1 Star).In my experience, Perfect Image is fairly reliable for making an image of a hard drive but it does occasionally fail to produce a working/restorable hard drive image - so, test, test, test to make sure you've successfully produced a working image of your hard drive. (Occasionally, when doing a restore, you might get a message saying that the PFM file isn't found. Simply select Generate and Save from the list of options).You can save your hard drive images onto CD's, DVD's, flashdrives, or external hard drives.With Perfect Image, formating your hard drive and reinstalling all your applications from scratch (sound familiar?) is a thing of the past.Backup------If you plan on selectively backing up files on your computer, Perfect Image seems to be plagued with a multitude of problems from an excruciatingly slow backup process to incompatibilities with OSes to the application failing to load up altogether (-1 Star). If that's what you plan on using Perfect Image for, I'd recommend  FolderMatch  instead.Conclusion----------It all depends on what you use Perfect Image for. Perfect Image is pretty darn near perfect for making images of your hard drive. But for selective backups, I'd recommend FolderMatch.

I bought this to do more partion management than Vista provides and my old program, Partion Magic, does not play well with Vista. It works fairly well but there are several things that it will not do like restore individual files or folders nor explore a saved image. Also you need to be aware that you need the latest version 10.1 because 10.0 doesn't work with Vista eithe!

I COULD NOT GET THE PROGRAM TO RUN ON MY WINDOW 8.1 OS!THE PROGRAM RUNS GREAT ON VISTA.NEED HELP WITH WINDOW 8 RUNNING THE PROGRAM!

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 would recommend it for back ups only not for files migration.

that's it

Returned

I have 64 bit Vista. Looked on the Amazon and Avanquest website, neither stated that the product does not support 64 bit.After it did not load, I called Avanquest and they told me it does not support 64 bit and they did not know when it will or if it ever will.

Found a better program.