Laplink DiskImage - Backup and Recovery for PC Protection - Hardware Independent - Boot CD can be created using the DiskImage application

After installing and creating the one Basic Image and a months worth of multiple Incrementals, thought it might be wise to generate a new BaseImage from which future Incrementals would be based.DiskImage provides two options: Merge the Incrementals to produce a new BaseImage - which does not seem to be wise? Produce a Base image from scratch. However, that proved to be difficult.A Help search didn't provide a solution.Laplink Chat suggested: Start Page->Imaging-> but the source drives could not be selected (grayed out) because they were in use. Restart/boot from the DiscImage install CD - which did produce a new Base Image, not a viable PRODUCTION solution?ONCE on initial launch of DiskImage from StartPage->One-Click Image got a dialog box with an option to create a BaseImage - but since have not been able to re-produce that.If you are able to produce a new BaseImage, you need to delete then create a New Job, being sure to specify the location of the new BaseImage and Incremental files.The Report XML file are huge (good for developer debugging - but not great for Production software) which slows down everything, and have not found a way to delete the older Report XML files.All in all believe the underlying software is sound BUT the GUI is a challenge!

Works great, have used product many times in the past. This newer version works equally well.

Did a full backup/image of my C: drive, then some time later, for the hell of it, decided to try and restore a file. Just to see if it worked. It didn't. The image file it created, on an external drive, was unreadable, and I had it verify the file after it created it and it came back as OK.

The Systems Requirements panel on the box says that it runs on Windows 8, but when I opened the box, I saw an insert that read that I needed the upgraded version 7 of DiskImage for "full Windows 8 compatibility". For that reason, I did not install this version. I went to the link that was on that insert/ It had a message that read, "We're sorry, but DiskImage 7 is not available yet. Please check back at a later time." Checking the company's web site for more information, I find that the version that I have is not Windows 8 compatible even though it says so on the box.I used Norton's Ghost over a decade, but with Windows 8, even Norton's Ghost has some problems. That is why I purchased this alternative, but it looks like this is also not ready.I am just waiting for either Symantec Norton's Ghost or LapLink DiskImage to be fully Windows 8 compatible. I prefer disk imaging software for backups.

Do not waste your money on this software. I've tried it to clone drives and create / restore its images using Windows 10. It has never been successful and only errors out in both modes with multiple settings tried and getting the same result. I was hoping to find an alternative to Acronis for cloning Windows 10 drives, but this Laplink software certainly isn't it.

Unable to load it in Windows 11 or stand-alone.

does image at drive & disk levels but can't restore at file level, only drive & disk levels - also advertised version 5 & immediately wanted an upgrade to version 9 with another sales charge

There’s a ton of free programs available that have better versions of these tools. Don’t waste your money

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I thought this would be ideal for me as the write up led me to believe that it was easy to use.I had no success using it as it is way beyond the average computer user. Leave it to the pros !!!