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No fuss, no fumbling with media; back up your entire drive the easy way with Drive Image 2002. Drive Image utilities let you back up your whole hard drive to another drive as if it was a file. It's fast and easy to back up, and fast and easy to restore your system if you have a disaster. The helpful wizards, the automatic scheduling, and the partitioning tool (for setting aside a section of your drive for backup images) make Drive Image the simplest image tool on the market. Other utilities make you reboot in DOS to run them; Drive Image 2002 has a friendly Windows interface, and provided you're not backing up your system partition, you can do everything from Windows. If you do want to back up your system partition, the software takes care of rebooting, running the backup, and restarting Windows automatically. And if that's not convenient, you can schedule it to run automatically when you shut down your PC. Plus, you can set it to do regular backups at times when you're not likely to be using your PC. In addition to the straightforward wizard options, there are also more powerful tools available. If you don't have a second hard drive or space on your primary drive, you can save an image onto a CD-ROM, a removable drive, or another PC over a network. If you want to upgrade to a new system rather than back up your data, you can clone one hard drive onto another. Although it's a Windows program, you can back up Linux file systems as well as FAT, FAT32, and NTFS. You can password-protect your backup partition, back up the Master Boot Record, and clean the boot partition. And when things go wrong, in addition to booting from rescue disks and running a full restore, the ImageExplorer utility lets you retrieve individual files from your backups. Drive Image 2002 is powerful enough to keep your files safe and simple enough to make backups painless. Just make sure the disk you save your backup to doesn't suffer the same disaster as your PC. --Mary Branscombe, Amazon.co.uk
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