Casper for Windows

User Reviews

• Doesn't work with SSD drives even they claim it does.

  Jacko123456781/5/2013

  Pros

  Works well with old type HDDs. Fast and convinient, but only with old HDDS

  Cons

  Doesn't work with SSDs. Copy is working otherwise but you will need to run W7 installation disk to fix lost boot manager after every copy to start your Windows. Tech support is not interested to fix the problem, just repeating old phrase "it works well with SSD.s". I guess their R&D has stalled.

  Summary

  Recommend if ou are using old style HDDs, but if you have SSD, forget it.

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• Works. SSD to HDD and HDD to SSD. Windows 7 64 bit.

  mongo54612/4/2012

  Pros

  Had Windows 7 64 bit home Premium on HDD. Bought an SSD. Plugged it into my SATA II connectors, installed Casper 7 on my HDD, backed it up (live, while still doing work on my computer) to my SSD. A bit slow for 200gb, took about 1 hr 40 min. Rebooted to the SSD. It worked. SSD became my boot disc. Used Casper to clone to another HDD. Again, did it while doing other work, still took close to 2 hr for the 200gb. Rebooted to the new HDD. It worked. Casper succeeded where Drive XML, Miray CloneHD, Windows Backup, and Acronis TrueHome all failed like dying rodents stinking up an Alabama roadway in the middle of August.

  Cons

  Have to read the !@#$ instructions to learn all the fancy autobackup stuff.

  Summary

  It works. Haven't tried the boot CD method, mostly because I believe in cloning my discs as a backup so I don't have to wait to get back up and running in case of crash.

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• Source drive problems will crash everything!

  OLDXTECH9/22/2012

  Pros

  Great product BUT wait for next version.

  Cons

  They have a known problem in ver 7. If your source drive has problems, Casper will not know and try to mirror to the destination drive. The mirror will fail, rendering the destination drive in a RAW [unformatted]state, thus killing any data already on the destination drive [your prior backup!!!] They are fixing in the next version. Only solution is to have multiple mirrors and do a disk drive health checkup prior to running. Use Drive Monitor from Acronis [or just buy Acronis].

  Summary

  Wait and see.

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• Easy, Simple and Works Great!

  Simon_Chow5/7/2012

  Pros

  One Click does it all.

  Cons

  Volume re-sizing disabled for free30-day trial, and you have to pay $49.95 for full version.

  Summary

  Volume re-sizing is very easy through windows "Administrative Tools" :- "Computer Management".

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• straightforward program does what it's supposed to do

  agastache3/30/2012

  Pros

  You want to back up your system in the simplest way possible? That's what this program does, without offering unnecessary options that only confuse non-techie people like me. After the initial backup, additional backups are very quick because there is no encryption. You can access any file on the backup, and if your computer allows you can even boot from it.

  Cons

  None at all.

  Summary

  If you decide to get this program, make sure you also get the startup disk.

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• Worth Every Penny

  boscorocks9/29/2011

  Pros

  Couldn't be easier to use Will save you stress

  Cons

  Everyone isn't aware of this incredible software

  Summary

  I have used this software for at least 5 years and always pay for the upgrades when they come out. It has saved me more times than I can count. Even people who hardly know how to use software can do backups easily. People, hard drives are cheap these days. Get another one and back it up! If your hard drive dies or a terrible virus makes it so the computer won't even boot up, you don't have to worry...just boot to your backup and you will be up and running in minutes. Cloud computing has its benefits but if your computer won't boot, downloading a backup won't do much good. This software doesn't just backup your files, it clones every sector. You don't have to worry about re-installing anything unless of course it happened after a backup. You can schedule a backup for every day, week or whatever you want. I personally do mine after doing a virus check and disk cleanup so I know my copy will be working and clean. I repair computers as a second job and if everyone had this software, well I guess I would have no work!

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• Beats them all without a doubt

  Bradafeasa2/28/2010

  Pros

  Easy to set up. Extremely accurate. Fast. Dependable. Solid support, but only used support once in over six years if using various versions of Casper, including the original Casper XP.

  Cons

  Can't think of any. It is the most useful utility I've ever owned, and has saved my bacon on numerous occasions.

  Summary

  I like this product because it works exactly as advertised. The retail versions allow copying between disks of unequal capacity. Casper 5.0 handles Windows 7 with ease. I also have Casper 6.0 which handles a Win 7 64 bit OS perfectly. Future Systems is the kind of company that we need more of. They make a solid product, offer upgrades when available, often at no charge, and their products have made my computer life better. I've been using computers since 1981, and I speak with that experience in mind.

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• Trial version only useful for same capacity drive

  climes3/20/2009

  Pros

  easy to use fast

  Cons

  Does not do what the wirte up says in the trial version

  Summary

  Works fine but must purchase product to upgrade a drive to a larger version. Wish CNET had more clearly explained this before I proceeded with this downlad and wasted my time.

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• Perfect. Did what Norton Ghost Didn't.

  andrewbarnes1231/11/2009

  Pros

  This software enabled me to move to a bigger hard disk. Norton Ghost tried but was unable. My advice? Downlolad it!

  Cons

  None at all.

  Summary

  What's to say? This did the trick!

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• Works exactly as you would like, does all it claims

  ja3y11/16/2008

  Pros

  Extremely easy, simple, straight forward, usable on demand, or by any of several unattended copy/update schedules.

  Cons

  Not a single one. I've been using/testing the program for almost 2 months now, using all of the available means of copying, and it has never failed to do it's job.

  Summary

  I had used this companies prior program, Drive2Drive, to migrate Win 98 SE to a larger Hard Drive, worked without problems. I had been doing my backups onto a separate partition on my system Hard Drive. I finally 'got' a fatal virus, my own fault. I forgot to do a boot scan, just this one time, and the virus, called sav.exe, aka AntiVirus 2008, AntiVirus 2009, wiped out the Master Boot Record. I lost everything. I'm sure there were means to 'get around' this, but not available to me, and certainly not within my experience. I have a couple of 'Rescue' type programs, had one of them for several years, right back to Win 95, they were of no help, there being nothing to 'Rescue', the Drive contents were just 'gone'. With the price of Hard Drives now being so inexpensive per GigaByte, it makes more sense to have a separate backup drive of the same size, and not on a partition. Doing this requires a program to handle the copy/update function, as quickly, and simply, and if possible, unattended, by schedule. Casper does all this. Just really good software, exactly as advertised, and the Tech Help is right on top of things. I had one simple question, nothing to do with the program, it 'ran' out of the 'box' first try, I had an answer by email within a day. I recommend this company/program to everyone, for this 'job', just no disappointment at all.

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