Windows 7 and filePro 5.6 installation

[Nancy Palmquist]

John,

I gave it to Tom and it worked great on his computer.  I think I had a 
disk flaw somewhere on the C drive.  It would get almost to the end then 
lock up.  I replaced the drive a year later, and it corrected backup 
issues.  I think it might have worked then, but I had already used my 
licenses for other machines.

I did like what I saw of it.

Nancy

On 2/17/2010 12:41 PM, John Esak wrote:
> 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-----
>> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
>> [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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