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To: rrufff who wrote (33722)	4/12/2003 7:17:05 PM
From: thecow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110653

Drive Image programs. Could someone tell me what these programs do and the purpose? To make a restorable image of you hard drive. Most people use them to be able to restore an exact image of the operating system to a (ideally) time when everything was just like you wanted. Let's say you had a hard drive failure or something happens and you lost all your data. System restore rolls back your computer to a time before you encountered a problem with your operating system but it will not restore lost data nor help in the event of a failure. System Restore can also fail whereas an image that you have tested and written to a cd or a second hard drive will more than likely be good. With a drive image program you can be back in business with a known good operating system in a matter of minutes. Disclaimer: I have never used an image program...just read about them.