AlohaBob PC Relocator Ultra Control 2005 review:5 stars (a good product) - I purchaced this program so I could clone my desktop PC hard drive to my new laptop. Both run windows xp with service pack 2. I transferred about 30 GB of data, and in about 40 minutes (using my hardwired home network connection) the laptop was up and running. All my programs - about 40 of them - work flawlessly on the laptop. The only problem I had was with my Roxio GoBack, and it turns out that program would not function on the laptop even when I tried to re-install it. I will be using this program for all my future PC migtations. 1 stars (Threw Program Away!) - I read poor reviews on Amazon and contacted the company because PC Magazine rated this program best. The tech from AlohaBob said the complaints were sour grapes. They didn't even have a complaint file from the persons writing the poor reviews. Well they don't have a complaint file from me either. I was so discussed with the program that I unloaded it and threw the software away. You can't return opened software. It was time and money wasted.5 stars (5 Stars -- AlohaBob is the only game in town.) - The doggo reviews are missing the point on this product. Suppose you try to stick your brain into a baby's body? Do you really believe everything will work perfectly without some RETRAINING? Or that you should "let Microsoft do it?"

What ya'll fail to understand is that this process is a very big deal. In the first place it is so far beyond the Microsoft's "settings transfer" utility that it is not comparable. It can save about five times as much effort I would say for the average computer user. Not everything -- but five times as much.

Maybe that makes sense for some and not for others but for people with a heavily customized system configuration it is a life saver -- a real brain transplant. I have literally hundreds of utilities and apps that I depend on daily without thinking about them. I have thousands of hours invested in my configuration. The idea that I could POSSIBLY reinstall it all from scratch went away three or four years ago.

Many of these features will transfer painlessly. Some are real pains in the backside by design or incompetence or conspiracy. Some like Norton's crap are so obsessive-compulsive that they shouldn't be on anybody's computer for any reason -- and have to be removed so they won't interfere with such an important event.

Basically there are so many variables that it is humanly (and therefore corporately) impossible for Eisenworld people to manage without competent support FROM THE USER to prepare BOTH MACHINES and then to manage the process capably and then to clean up and yes, to catch the errors.

The example of expecting a complex partition schedule to transfer without coordinating partitions manually is just classic goof stuff. A dream for some future day but not this decade if ever.

Think about it -- these reviews trash this product and company and dishearten the crew for THE ONLY PRODUCT THAT WILL DO THE JOB. How are you going to do a transfer like it in the future if they say hang it? Leave it up to Microsoft? Like Microsoft has managed system backup? Or system restore points? You have got to be kidding.

In fact there are problems with the concept. The first is the System Registry and the distribution of program threads across possibly dozens or (I have seen) hundreds of logical entries. If the ideal wasn't bad enough in practice the Registry is a disaster of old threads leading nowhere. You want this program to figure it out while it is on the move? If you had any appreciation for the scope of the work you would do everything you can to prepare before the transfer.

Ultimately there are errors -- the program copies too much or not enough. You have to compare data sizes carefully because whether it's your fault, the coding's fault, or just gremlins (WHICH EXIST -- THEY ARE REAL -- TRUST ME IT'S MY JOB) it can just skip something leaving you without hundreds of megabytes that you "assumed" transferred but didn't.

DO YOUR COMPETENT BACKUPS. MANAGE THE TRANSFER. Or hire somebody who will. That will cost you a minimum of several hundred bucks -- and no matter who you hire -- this is the product they will use.

And yes, do the backup to a hard drive. This points out one other feature of this five-star program (five for importance, not ease of use). IT IS THE ONLY METHOD OF BACKUP THAT CAN RESTORE TO A NON IDENTICAL SYSTEM.

"Oh you wanted your restoration to run? Well then you have to restore it to the same computer." "But my computer, my laptop, was stolen." "Well I can't help that -- backup programs only restore the hard drive -- not make an image run on a different computer. That's not how it works. You'll have to reinstall all your programs." "Oh! You mean there's no way to do that?" "Absolutely none -- unless you can find an identical computer."

A PC Relocator image to an external hard drive can restore to ANY new machine within standard upgrade guidelines. So it's flat worth it to try to get it right, and hope this company doesn't "let Microsoft do it."


AlohaBob PC Relocator Ultra Control 2005 Features:
Disk Drive Partitions (Hard)
File Conversion (Convert)
File Compression (Decompression)
Computer software (programs)
Utilities
Back up (Backup Backing)
Maintenance
Diagnostics (Diagnostic)
CD
Disaster recovery; intuitive user interface; easy to use
Powerful migration tool for transferring info to a new PC
Selectively migrate info at higher transfer speeds
Moves all programs, settings, and data files
Save to removable media for backup protection

AlohaBob PC Relocator Ultra Control 2005 is the CD-ROM version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around 54.99USD.