Book Reviews and Money Saving Tips

I downloaded EASEUS Todo Backup to my Windows 7 desktop. It was free and Free always attracts my attention. It set up easily and looked good. Documentation said it supported Windows 7. I got it to clone my hard drive to a 300gb Seagate External USB drive. It appeared to be fine. I decided in the event the desktop hard drive failed, I wanted to be able to just pop the external drive in for the replacement. In order to do that, I had to find a drive with the same interface that the desktop supports. Once I got my new drive I tried to clone the desktop drive to it. After multiple failures of the software to complete the cloning process I gave up. I had a lot of trouble getting the first clone done and this set of attempts just turned me off of the software. I am not a tech. I am a reasonably knowledgeable user. If I have to tweak software to get it to work, hold it’s hand and whisper in it’s ear to get the job done, I DON’T WANT IT. I want something I can recommend that works easily...

I recently had a system with XP Pro on it have the hard drive go south on me. I thought no sweat I had a Bounceback cloned hard drive I could just pop in and be up and going in no time. I have used Bounceback for a couple of years and I have easily restored lost files. This was the first time I tried using it for the claimed clone feature. Supposedly on your first backup of your c: drive you can identify that you want that backup to be a bootable copy of the c: drive. Well, I had done that and guess what didn’t work. Shame on me, all these years using Bounceback and I assumed(you know what that makes me) it worked without testing the main feature I purchased it for. Peeved would be the kindest thing I could say. Now I have moved that specific computer from office to home, three years ago and have no clue where the XP cd and key for that system is. I know, I should practice what I preach but I hadn’t planned on selling the business (got a good offer) and it was a fast transition. Luckil...