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| January 25, 2007 | Relph-Knight, Terry | COPYRIGHT 2007 Incisive Media, published with the permission of Incisive Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Terry Relph-Knight

An image is worth a thousand files

Disk-imaging applications can help protect your precious data, so Terry Relph-Knight takes a tour of the top five packages

Your personal data, and the digital working environment it occupies, can easily become the most valuable aspect of your system. In the past the software tools for preserving these assets were split into backup utilities and environment migration utilities. Now a new generation of disk-imaging software is emerging that combines elements of both, along with enhanced usability. In this group test we review five of these disk-imaging programs.

Many PCs are now sold with the operating system and applications pre-installed as a compressed hidden partition on the hard disk. In the event of a serious corruption or deletion of the OS, or applications that are installed on the main working partition, providing there is no hardware fault, the system can be restored to its original condition from the hidden partition. However, this doesn't ...

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