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To: Raptech who wrote (60228)	11/18/2008 2:44:07 PM
From: Alex Molnar	Respond to of 110653

Raptech, Excellent review! Many thanks, you saved a lot of us plenty of aggravation. Compliments to you and the thread, this surely has to be the best of the best! Alex

To: Raptech who wrote (60228)	11/18/2008 3:04:53 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

An excellent overview of two popular imaging software packages. Thank-you for your time and effort to share your observations. I refuse to use a computer that doesn't have a disk image. It's just not worth the risk. Currently, I use Acronis. For many years, I used Drive Image. I've never tried Ghost. I'd like to add to your comments. I also use an Acronis sister product, Disk Director. It manages the partitions. Like Drive Image, it works smoothly and easily. I began with Partition Magic. The advantages of using a partitioned drive are plentiful. Separating data from system files makes disaster recovery easy. For those systems with only one disk, a partition can give them a place to store images of their system. Although it doesn't offer perfect protection, it can enable a quick recovery from software problems. The majority of troubles stem from software, not hardware. Partitioning, to be user friendly, needs to be done without data loss. Both programs I mentioned will do this. For the frugal, there's FDISK. But it destroys data. For most people, it's too much pain. Cheers, PW.