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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (70176)	5/13/2010 3:25:45 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

Oh Kay. Paragon. My latest findings. My old version 8.5 personal edition of Partition Manager was updated to the most recent build 3610. No, it does not do back ups but you can make a clone. Odd, the instructions say otherwise but also has a warning that not all features maybe supported by your version of the product. I go check the table of what has what, and sure enough the personal edition 8.5 does not have backup feature. Strange the table also says it doesn't have the file transfer either but in fact it does. Inconsistent. Anyway, I have also seen the other post showing a free copy of paragon image software which gets a good review. Not surprised, my new 1TB Western Digital green HD that I just bought comes with some Paragon tuning software free. BUT, I also had a look at UK ebay, just so see what was in the bargain section. Look at this... cgi.ebay.co.uk The full shooting match for £4.99, less then $10 including postage in the UK. Probably get a similar deal elsewhere too. Free Steganos CD. Looks as if you cant use it on windows 7, hence the cheapness I expect. So I forked out the funds and bought a copy. I was tempted to buy the whole lot, even if I don't use the software I have plenty of family who need this stuff bad even if they don't know it yet. I also have the full up to date suite of Steganos security suite. It's an excellent way to keep 100's of usernames and passwords with randomly selected, alpha numeric, uppercase lower case, characters that can even be entered on a screen keyboard just in case you have a key logger on board without knowing it. You can make portable password managers and safes for memory sticks. I usually keep some security info off the PC as it's best to remember the hackers are always one step. ahead. Some security data is written down on paper only. The partition manager stuff just replicates all the stuff you can do with command line DOS, it just has a really nice graphical interface. It would be almost unthinkable for me to try and do it all from the command line. To answer anothers question asked about imaging. If you have a duff system, why take an image of it? Answer: It's the first thing you do. Take an image. If you fix your system problems you are able to recover any file from the image that you might still be missing after recovery. Never think things can't get worse. Computer systems always get worse, especially microsoft, unless you can outsmart them. Sorry for preaching to the choir -g- It's Linux friendly. It's easy to make an independent recovery bootable disk that does everything outside the OS. Read the reviews, I haven't bothered but I expect they will be good. /edit Note. I just found what "BNIB" means. Brand New In Box.