Paragon Drive Copy Professional for Windows

User Reviews

• Corrupted my OS

  jimichanNovember 1, 2014

  Pros

  Absolutely none!

  Cons

  Paid for a solution to let me migrate my OS to an SSD. It failed. The OS refused to receive updates after using it. Support from Paragon was useless and they actually insulted me on the phone. When I asked to speak to a supervisor it got worse.

  Summary

  Not only did I lose the $20 I spent on their software, I also ended up getting a new OS for another $100.

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• It works so far and I received a promotional copy.

  fujitsuloverJanuary 10, 2013

  Pros

  The promotional copy works so far. It was given to me for free. There is no glitches yet.

  Cons

  You never know until it is needed whether the restore is successful.

  Summary

  Jesus Christ! I got this from a promo Paragon was/is doing. So I really cannot complain. It is able to accurately identify separate partitions of different types. The compression is impressive. I was able to save a partition of Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate (English 32-bit Edition) in 4 to 5 discs. This is good considering it saves me the hassle of dealing with Microsoft again if I needed to activate it again when it goes down for viruses. It also seems to have saved all my settings.<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Mar 9, 2013<p/>Jesus Christ! I had to restore my cousin's Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate (English 32-bit Edition) for some reason. I had to use the repair option found on my original Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate disc. On that disc, there is also a "repair" option in addition to an install option. So just choose that if you have boot problems loading up your Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate. I also had my boot portion point to my Mac partition so I had to use my Mac OS X Mountain Lion disc to fix the startup pointer. So it is a little complicated, however, you should also know you may need try the repair boot option again until it worked like I did.

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• Windows 7 Pro 64-bit users beware!

  brauworthJune 2, 2011

  Pros

  Free. Easy to install

  Cons

  When told to restart the computer after loading, the computer would not restart. Something happened to the startup files, and I had to repair the startup files with the Windows 7 DVD. Not good!

  Summary

  Might be OK with Win XP, but Windows 7 users might be at risk.

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• Excellent product

  mike-holdenApril 13, 2011

  Pros

  Easy to use

  Cons

  None, I can find.

  Summary

  I have been using Drive Copy since Version 8.5. Version 11 seems to have resolved the 'quirks' of earlier versions. I backup my entire hard drive every month. Over the years I have had a couple of instances where I needed to revert to the backup due to an HDD problem. I was able to boot up the backup and carry on. It havs saved me hours of work. Glad I bought it.<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Oct 5, 2011<p/>Excellent product. I make a bootable back-up of my entire disk every month.

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• Complete Fail

  AstroNerdBoyMay 14, 2009

  Pros

  Simple, wizard-driven interface.

  Cons

  Can't actually get the free version to perform an image copy, so you waste money to discover it doesn't work.

  Summary

  I suspect all those reviews from December 30, 2008 are from Paragon employees and not from real people. I was looking into getting software to image my current C-drive so that I could replace it with a nifty, new 1TB drive. I had tried some other imaging software and decided to give this a try. I allowed my desperation to override my common sense and I paid for a copy of this software. Unfortunately, I was unable to get any image of my C-drive no matter what I tried. All attempts to image failed and when I scheduled an image copy for after reboot (but before your system loads Windows), that too failed. I contacted Paragon about this and they requested some logs be sent to them. OK, I did that. Then they asked me if I could remove the card readers on my PC. What the smeg card readers have to do with imaging my HD, I'll never know and since I've no intention of removing hardware of any kind, I refused. So they then suggested that I give them remote access to my machine and provided a tool to do so. I was reluctant, but agreed. Unfortunately, the tech never showed up but he did send an apology e-mail. After playing tag with them several times, I grew weary and just quit. Basically, I don't know why this software is failing on the image copy. However, the fact that you have to pay for the software before getting to do an actual image combined with the software company's reluctance to give up money when they could easily see from the logs how I had no success at creating an image, I have to wholeheartedly suggest you pass this and move on to something better.

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• An optimal solution for copying hard drive.

  EruannaJanuary 19, 2009

  Pros

  I use this program when copying my hard drive on dvds

  Cons

  I've found no cons

  Summary

  Very useful tool with friendly user interface. Must have! :)

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• Nice drive copying tool for reasonable price

  kelebDecember 30, 2008

  Pros

  No need to turn off computer or shutdown programs to make a copy, incremental backups save space on backup dvds, you can change disk size, letter and so on when copying and deploying to other hdd.

  Cons

  Does not support raid

  Summary

  This tool helped me a lot when I had to clone a windows installation to several machines. I managed to convince my boss to buy it and it really saved a lot of time for me.

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• Perfect programm!

  ZMicDecember 30, 2008

  Pros

  Everything the best!

  Cons

  Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow!

  Summary

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• So simple and effective.

  SkorpikorkaDecember 30, 2008

  Pros

  So simple and effective.

  Cons

  So simple and effective.

  Summary

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• Cool tools

  alexfriendDecember 30, 2008

  Pros

  Cool tools

  Cons

  Cool tools

  Summary

  Cool tools

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