Windows 7 and filePro 5.6 installation

[John Esak]

Only thing I would say is give Acronis another chance. It certainly lets you
see your backup as the same way it looks on your filesystem and you can grab
things and restore them with ease. I hace found Acronis (9.1) to be
absolutely reliable, I can't imagine what was giving you trouble. They are
very good with backup images, and file system backups.  I think you just had
a real kldge somewhere. See what they have as an upgrade to Win7 and I'll
bet it works right. I think you hit some really terrible fluke. Myself,
friends, Jim Asman, etc., all swear by it.  So, there are lots and lots of
situations that work perfectly.  It also has plugins for BartPE recovery
DVD's so you can just restore a completely crashed system. Well, I've never
had to do it, but Jason thae sysadmin at Tim's place has done it dozens and
dozens of times... Purposely to move a system from machine to machine, or to
upgrade someone.  

Really, I'd give it another shot... And check out the restore facility which
just shows you the files on the media exactly as they were on your file
sytem... So that should be a pllus for you if you liked it on
Retrospective.... That came on a USB drive I bought and strangely, I did not
like that version of it at all.  Funny how things go.

John
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
m] On Behalf Of Nancy Palmquist
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:29 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Windows 7 and filePro 5.6 installation
> 
> Mine supports it beautifully.
> 
> Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz
> 64-bit
> With Windows 7 Ultimate.
> 
> I am finding it stable and fast.  I like it.  I am even finding the 
> changes to Windows rather better in many cases than I have 
> seen in other 
> upgrades.  Still have to get a backup solution, but I keep 
> getting more 
> of the functions added each day, as I have time.
> 
> I have had lousy luck with many of the backup software for 
> WindowsXP.  I 
> will have to see what is supported by Windows7 for a reliable 
> backup method.
> 
> Acronis would not work on my old machine.  I tried to work with their 
> tech support but after a month, I gave up and uninstalled it. 
>  I think 
> some months later I had a hard drive issue, which I think was 
> what keep 
> Acronis from working.  Although the error message was not clear.
> 
> Retrospect was nice because it let me make a duplicate of a drive.  I 
> like this format, because I can roll around and grab things from an 
> older version.  But it would stop running for no reason, 
> sometimes.  I 
> found that a bit of an issue.  I was also very confused by 
> way it kept 
> the real backups, in volumes and stuff.  Pretty proprietary, 
> if you need 
> the stuff and the new computer does not run retrospect.  That always 
> worried me.  I want something less proprietary, I think.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Nancy
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/16/2010 9:21 PM, Fairlight wrote:
> > With neither thought nor caution, Kenneth Brody blurted:
> >    
> >> There is a download "Windows XP Mode", which as I 
> understand it is XP in a
> >> VM for Windows 7.  It does, however, require "hardware-assisted
> >> virtualization", which is not supported in all CPUs, even 
> in today's market.
> >>    For example, my 3-month-old Win7 box, which has an 
> "Intel Core 2 Duo
> >> T6600" and runs 64-bit Windows, does not support it.
> >>      
> > Let me guess...it requires Intel VTx?  My E8400 Core2 Duo and DP35DP
> > mainboard don't support that for VirtualBox, either.  :/
> >
> >    
> >> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
> >>      
> > mark->
> >    
> 
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