- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (30-day trial, volume resizing disabled); $49.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
- Date added: April 14, 2005
- Total Downloads: 117,548
- Downloads last week: 226
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- Average user rating: stars out of 80 votes
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Publisher's description
From Future Systems Solutions :Casper XP makes upgrading and backing up your Windows XP or 2000 hard disk a snap. Use Casper XP to keep a complete and fully bootable backup of your Windows XP or 2000 system. If your system hard disk fails or becomes corrupted, boot your computer directly from your backup hard disk and you're up and running again in seconds. Schedule the backup to be performed at virtually any time. Casper XP can even perform the copy in the background while you continue to use your computer. The program makes upgrading your system hard disk to a larger hard disk a breeze. Casper XP runs entirely from within Windows, and intelligent wizards guide you every step of the way. NEW! SmartClone and 1-Click Cloning make Casper XP 3.0 the fastest, most convenient, and easiest to use Casper XP ever. The program works with any hard disk recognized by Windows including ATA/IDE, SCSI, USB, and FireWire - even with SATA and hardware RAID arrays. It is ideal for backing up and upgrading notebooks, too.
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User reviews of Casper XP 3.0
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 80 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Casper XP 3.0
"Amazing. I thought only way to clone disk is in Dos with Ghost."
Pros: Now this is a great tool. If you don't want or CAN'T for some kind of reason do cloning with Norton Ghost, Casper XP is the right choice. Works on Win 2000 well for me. I couldn't get cloned a drive through USB, Ghost constantly complained it can't mount the destination drive. So I gave a try to Casper and it rocks!
Cons: The only negative thing I can think of in terms of pure drive cloning is that with Casper it takes about 10 times longer than with Norton Ghost. That means if someone has 100 GB drive it can take well over 10-15 hours to clone it (over USB), whereas with Ghost it takes less than one hour.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Casper XP 3.0
"Simply the best, blows Norton Ghost out of the water."
Pros: The best HD cloning utility out there. After reading the scores of negative reviews on Norton Ghost everywhere on the net, I found this quite by accident. I needed a program to clone my internal drive to an external SATA drive to boot from, it it preformed flawlessly.
Just a note: Though it says it can preform the copy in the backgound, only an idiot would do it.
Shut down all the programs you aren't using, and back 'er up.
The super cool: The first backup will take anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours depending on the size of your drive (mines 250 GB), but once backed up, there's a Smart Feature that recopies only what has been changed, so subsequent backups after the first take 3-12 minutes! Superior.
Cons: None.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Casper XP 3.0
"Copied one disk drive fine .... BUT...."
Pros: The interface is user friendly. Setup went like a breeze. Copying gigabytes of data is always going to take some time, but this one didn't take as long as I expected it would. The demo allowed me to copy from a large disk to a smaller one. I'm seriously condsidering purchase. I would recommend the trial version with caution due to what I have described in 'CONS' below. (BTW, regardless of whether you read user guides or not, Windows, at least XP Home, will not bootstrap from a USB device.)
Cons: The Gateway 507R I bought came with a WD 200 Gig disk drive. I bought a Hitachi 80 Gig disk drive to put OS & App's on and then use the big drive for video editing. Casper was the first demo I found that would allow me to resize.
Since it said it would run in the background and I had a long print job running, I fired it up. About ten minutes in, the printer decided to tell me the ink was low. Casper told me it was unable to continue because of a problem with another application. So I hit OK. Nothing happened. I hit Cancel. Nothing happened. At that point the system was frozen. No Mouse. No keyboard.
So I shut down manually. When I turned it back on, it went thruogh the bootstrap sequence up to 'windows' and that was it. Evidently something was awry in startup.
I was attempting to copy the same drive I was running from. I found out that this is not a good idea.
I recovered from the five CD's I made when I first fired up the the system.
Once upon a time in computer pre-history, I made a living de-bugging software, and I thought that maybe the guys that wrote this code hadn't considered a hardware interrupt.
I have no sense of caution, so I ran it again, still copying the same drive I was running from, but with nothing else running but Zone Alert.
It worked like a champ.
I will never again attempt to copy a drive I am running from, but I will still be apprehensive of using Casper with anything else running until I have a chance to try it when it won't require five hours of recovery.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Casper XP 3.0
Pros: My notebook hard drive was out of room so at the recommendation of a co-worker I bought Casper XP to help me upgrade to a larger hard drive. The upgrade worked beautifully. My notebook booted right up with all my data intact. What a relief. Now I?m using Casper to backup using my external USB drive. BTW, I read what Scottra wrote about not being able to boot from a USB drive. The Casper User Guide makes it a point to say that ?Windows is not designed to boot and run directly from an external device.? (I know, real men don?t read User Guides) but in defense of the company that sells this program I figured I'd do my good deed for the day by setting the record straight. What?s fair is fair.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Casper XP 3.0
"Excellent product, excellent technical help"
Pros: Cloned a whole hard disk in an hour, and the clone worked.
As other reviewers have testified, this is a rare product - with technical support that is genuine, detailed, personal and fast.
So, I bit the bullet, dared to buy the full edition, so as to gain from the extra features without trying the demo first. I had already installed my HD inside a mobile rack system, and put something similar inside a Belkin external USB2 case.
I installed CasperXP. I rebooted just in case. I made sure I closed off the internet, and unloaded the antivirus/firewall. I also do not use a screen saver, or anything that powers down the computer. I was just taking precautions. I started my external HD, then ran Casper, following the directions in the manual. I wanted to clone four partitions on 80Gb HD to a new HD of 120Gb. This new HD turned out to have some data on it - in fact a whole Windows Installation with two partitions so I must have been sold a used HD. I trusted Casper to sort all that out, and it did. I took advice to copy the whole HD, rather than just one partition. This way I got the boot partition with the three additional logical partitions and the partition tables were not confused.
Well, I was nervous. I watched, and was amazed at the speed. When I last did a full backup it took over 10 hours to copy my data -and I was using the faster than Windows, Dos level copy commands. Casper breezed through, copying large and small files, at an average speed of 1542Mb per minute. Wow! CasperXP was designed for whole disk copy - I will be using it for data backups! And apparently these backups will go even faster, because of some kind of smart system, that updates the changes.
Cons: Well, I tried putting the clone into my machine, the bios recognised it, made some adjustments, then failed to go further. I went back to the original, and contacted technical help.
The next day I had a reply, detailing exactly what I had to do to produce two reports, and how to email them, either using the mailto, if activated, or what to do if that failed (Wow, giving more than one possible ways, in precise detail, without missing out any steps).
The same day I had a reply to the reports. The problem was in my bios which was getting confused between the 240 heads of the original HD and the 255 heads of the new HD. I was advised to try to make changes within my bios, and failing that, to apply use Casper to apply correction patches (I said patches in the plural, - two were needed, and this was clearly explained), then try again. My bios lacked the detail to make the changes required, so I applied the patches. This time it worked. Technical help really know their program, and they know how to give clear detailed instructions.
What other programme is so fast, has detailed technical help, and allows me to test my backups before putting them into storage? I have recently had to do a clean install of Windows, and on a very slow telephone line line, do all the Windows updates - it took a few days since I did not have the SP1 and SP2 CDs available. I now have a basic and good system. Now what I intend to do is clone only the operating system partition onto a smaller HD, and put this in a safe place so that hopefully in two years time when I need a rebuild, I do not have to start again from scratch. I also want to make another copy, and use it as my experimental Windows. I know about multiboots - but that creates other problems. Now, thanks to Casper XP and more than one movable HD I can clone/backup my whole hard disk more than once, test each backup, and have a testbed HD for new programmes. I keep my crucial data on another external HD so can easily swap round my bootable HDs.
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