Paragon Drive Backup 9 PersonalComments on:

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:48:21 +0000

I downloaded, installed and registered this product. Well I finally got around to trying it out that I didn’t care for it. so I removed it.

The problem is Paragon keeps sending unsolicited emails. Sometimes 2 or more each day. At the bottom of the spam they write,

Paragon News is never sent unsolicited; you subscribed to Paragon’s Customer E-Service System for information about our products and updates. If you do not want to receive future messages, please go to our E-Service System and disable the Paragon News checkbox.

I can asure you that I never knowingly signed up to receive emails from these clowns. But even worse, when the link to unsubscribe is clicked, it takes to a page where you are required to register and log in to unsubscribe.

You may forward this to the clowns at Paragon.

Thank you for your other fine software postings.

By: lostinlodos

lostinlodos — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:55:18 +0000

Typical, fubar sees something he/she doesn’t understand and calls it fabricated. Again I wasn’t the only one noticing the issues I stated (some before me some after me). I am only trying to help. I’m just lucky enough to have multiple computers with multiple OSs.
The listed drives didn’t show up. If the same drives work on your system that didn’t work on mine and others’ systems; let us all know what you did/changed to make them work on yours.

I would also welcome the mod to check my background, or google me (over 1million hits) or to email me for a verifiable background.

By: rshig1

rshig1 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:46:25 +0000

Downloaded okay. Created Reboot Disk on flash Drive. Started backup of C to Seagate external USB drive.

Time elapsed: 1:05:49 Time remaining: 05:06:11

Error window appeared:

Operation failed
VSS: Can’t read volume data
Error source: Hard Disk Manager
Error code: 0×12016

Help!

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:16:07 +0000

ABSOLUTELY LOUSY PROGRAM!!! Crashed my computer, had to restore with ghost. It messes up mbr and partitions, thank God for simple dos ranish partition manager, still the best!!!They claim its a giveaway but you only get to install it for 24 hours and have to leave it on the machine, if you uninstall and reinstall it won’t reinstall, not a giveaway at all, just a 1 day trial. Old ghost is still number 1, acronis true image etc. GL!

By: William

William — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:33:23 +0000

error message “destination file couldn’t be created” so I couldn’t install or evaluate. I didn’t have time to download again.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:08:25 +0000

I tried to install my downloaded copy of this program today and it is corrupted. Is there any way to obtain a replacement for the original download? I have sent an message to GOTD and so far have not gotten anything back.

Thanks!

By: Marshall

Marshall — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:55:11 +0000

It may not be too late even now. See comment # 187. And
for the registering problem itself, see comment #207.
That’s how I got mine to register. I’m on XP SP3 & right now it is backing up up my C: drive. I already made my emergency recovery CD. BTW, the basic difference between Paragon Drive Backup 9 PE & Person Edition is PE will only back up the entire drive & Personal will also backup the files individually. Good luck.
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-personal/comparison.html

By: J Lutgring

J Lutgring — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:42:09 +0000

Thank you, GAOTD! This is the finest software you’ve offered since I’ve been downloading, about 2 years. It works great; I created an emergency boot USB drive, created a disk image of my c: disk, then, already having several images by Acronis True Image, I did a bare metal restore with the Paragon product and it worked BEAUTIFULLY! For those whining about not being able restore their hard disk because they have to reinstall Drive Backup 9, which they will have to buy; that’s utter nonsense. The primary function of this software is to be able to restore your image to a blank disk drive. Can you name one single disk image product that does not do this? YOU CAN’T. For those of you that downloaded and installed this product, you did great.

By: Joyce Allen

Joyce Allen — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:40:28 +0000

Was not able to install the paragon drive. It gave me amessage that there was a problem and I would have two days to register. I tried again today and was told the giveaway was over. What am I supposed to do?

By: Doh

Doh — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:58:07 +0000

Damn I totally forgot to down this yesterday. ARGH!!!

Anyone know why is there such a big difference in file size between this download and the special edition? Both are personal. Even if you combine SE or trail/demo 32-bit and 64-bit they only adds up to 180MB. What’s the extra 60MB for?