Hi Joe,

Pleased to read that you are using Acronis and I have been recommending the use of it here for many years - in fact I would never be without it after suffering all those time consuming and costly problems before it

The company I do work for deal with all computer problems and they tell me that the only change a hard drive if the hard drive itself is faulty or has surface damaged sectors/areas etc - a re-format wipes clean as does Acronis before it restores it's disk image - however it is possible that if the disk is damaged that it would not wipe completely

A disk check can often reveal disk problems although sometimes it will throw up that it cannot solve the problem - that is a clue to it's condition and there are also applications that will constantly monitor the hard drive

Sounds like a good way to boost sales though

Brian


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