Keep Your Data Safe!
Active@ Disk Image is a disk image software that makes an exact copy of any PC disks (HDD, SSD, USB, CD, DVD, Blu-ray etc.) and stores it into a folder. The disk images may be used for backups, PC upgrades or disk duplication purposes.
In case of computer failure, a backup image may be used to recover your computer system or find & restore any necessary files from within an image.
Release Note: v.5.2.5 (Dec 22, 2011)
Performance increased up to 150% on multi-core systems
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" Just a note to let you know that after a catastrophic failure of my XP machine, I was able to create a boot disk on my Windows 7 machine and successfully restore the complete drive from a previous backup on an external drive. Great program! Thanks very much.
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Bud Lorch
St. Thomas ON
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| Windows 7 / Vista / Server 2003 / Server 2008 / XP / Small Business Server 2011 |
Old Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris for PC, etc. can be backed up by Raw Disk Image mode after booting up from Active@ Boot Disk Lite *. |
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Create Backup Disk Image (occupied clusters only) |  |
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Create Raw Disk Image (sector by sector copy) | |
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Bootable Disk. CD, DVD, USB stick. | |
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Image Compression (Normal and High) | |
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Image Encrypting (AES-128, AES-192, AES-256) | |
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Scheduled backups | |
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Windows Servers are supported | |
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More features
Read More: Backup Your System with Disk Image Software
Disk Backup Software safes your time
I'm sure that I'm not the only person that can say that they lost important files on their computer due to some sort of problems. Usually it's a virus that causes you to do something like reformat your computer, and despite saving a lot of things, there is always SOMETHING you forget.
In my case, it wasn't a virus… To be honest, I don't even know what it was, but it left my computer in a state where I couldn't install and/or get any of my new software to work, so I decided to reformat my computer. Instead of saving the "My Documents" folder to an external hard drive, I copied the shortcut to it. Dumb, I know.
After spending an entire weekend formatting and reinstalling programs, I finally got my computer the way I wanted (everything actually started working, by the way!).
When I finally got everything working the way I wanted it, the last thing was to back it all up so that I wouldn't find myself wasting more time in the future and losing more data. I even went out to buy a terabit hard drive to dedicate to the cause. I heard a lot of people had problems with Windows Backup, and when it started having problems halfway through; I decided to find different software to use. My friend recommended disk backup software Active @ Disk Image, so I decided to give it a shot.
The way this program worked was that you can put it on a CD or USB and start up your computer from it, instead of the Hard Drive. Booting up my computer from the USB was easy enough, just pressed 'ESC' when I turned on my computer, F9 to reach "Boot Options" and selected the USB to boot up from. After that, everything seemed pretty simple. It asked for the time zone and screen resolution, after that it brought me to the main screen.
There was a "Windows Explorer"-esque window with all of the different options. It was very easy to navigate because when I selected something, it showed a description of what it would do on the left side of the window. I quickly found that the "Disk to Image" option was what I needed. I chose that, started a full backup, chose to have it saved on my external hard drive, and that was that. An hour later, I was done. It saved over 100GB of data to my hard drive. To make sure everything was fine I ran their "Verify Image" option, making sure that the disk backup software Disk Image was saved properly. Everything was good.
Finally, I made sure that everything was fine by trying out their "Explore Image" option. It let me browse through the disk backup software Disk Image, letting me restore large parts of my saved disk, or find specific things inside to restore individually. I tried restoring a few things for the heck of it and it worked perfectly. Just picked what I wanted to restore and where to restore it to.
Overall, disk backup software Active @ Disk Image is a great product that really helped me out, I only wish I had known about it sooner. It was easy to use and it helped me out quite a bit, giving me good, reliable software to back up my information with. I would recommend this software to anyone who needs copies of their disks to use for backups, or even to copy disks onto other computers. Great software!
Mike Smith
customer which using disk backup software Active@ Disk Image
Backup Your System with Disk Image Software
Disk image software is the perfect tool for thoroughly backing up the data on your hard disk or other media. Active@ Disk Image provides the tools you need in a user-friendly package
Keeping your data safe is essential since there are many situations in which things can go wrong and important data can be unwittingly deleted.
Although there are many different data backup solutions available out there, disk image software provides one of the most thorough and effective ways of backing up data.
Active@ Disk Image is one of the leading solutions for disk image software and it makes an exact and complete copy of almost any kind of media such as a hard disk drive, flash drive or optical media. The disk image is then stored in a folder on your chosen target media and you can use this for reliably duplicating the entire contents of the disk. No longer do you have to worry about losing data in the event of a computer failure.
Active@ Disk Image is a versatile and user-friendly tool providing you with two different methods of creating disk images and safely backing up your data.
The backup disk image method is used for backing up the entire contents of a computer or any other kind of media. However, using this method only duplicated the occupied sectors of the disk, rather than making an image which includes blank sectors as well.
This allows you to conserve space on the target media. Active@ Disk Image is also able to create raw disk images containing a completely identical and accurate copy of absolutely every sector on the disk.
This is useful for backing up computers running systems other than Microsoft Windows. It is also useful for the recovery of data in the future, using software like Active@ Undelete.
Unlike most other disk image software, Active@ Disk Image supports almost any type of media including CDs, DVDs, dual-layer DVDs, Blu-ray disks, USB flash drives, flash memory cards, FireWire devices, network drives, Jaz and Zip drives, HD-DVD and, of course, any type of hard disk.
The software also includes an automatic scheduling component which can automatically create and update disk images, doing all of the hard work for you. It also supports bootable disks, whether they are hard disks, USB mass storage devices or any other kind of media.
Active@ Disk Image supports a wide range of systems for maximum versatility. Reliable and user-friendly, Active@ Disk Image supports tablet PCs and netbooks running the Windows 7 Basic edition as well as full server systems running either Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 Server editions.
For regular home desktops and laptop computers, Windows XP to Windows 7 are supported, including 64-bit editions.
You can find out more about the system requirements as well as a full list of product features at http://www.disk-image.net/.
There is also an extensive user guide which provides tips, tricks and detailed walkthroughs to help you get the most out of this powerful disk image software. The walkthroughs provide screenshots to make them easier than ever to follow. Pay a visit to the website today and make sure that your computer and other media is safely and securely backed up!
Jeff Ford
uses disk image software in his business to ensure that data is safely backed up at the end of every working day
Disk Image Software vs File Backup Software
First you install required packages and make major tuning, then you start working and find all little adjustments you need to make like resizing tools windows, selecting a better font etc.
All those subtle changes here and there little by little transform a standard computing environment into a cozy place to work tailored to your needs and customs. It can easily take a week or more since you never have in mind the whole list of adjustments to do from the start but rather make them as you go.
Now imagine something disastrous happened — you installed some cool software just to check and it crashed you system to the state of complete mess. Or this could be a malicious virus or hard disk failure — you name it. The result is the same — you are facing a necessity of complete system re-installation.
Your personal data is safe cause you wisely copied your project files and documents to a backup disk or flash drive but the idea of setting up the whole system from the scratch drives you crazy.
Is there anything which can take the burden of complete system setup away or you need to repeat all these annoying steps again?
Many of you have heard of disk backup software capable to automate a routine process of saving your vital data and recovering them back should the worst happen. One of them, Microsoft Backup is built into Windows and ready to serve you. Is it a good tool or can you just copy all Windows files altogether as you did to your documents?
To understand the situation you have to realize three major complications arising when creating a reserve copy of your data.
First of all, the files you are going to copy must be available and consistent. Its fine when you are simply copying a Word document to another location when you are not using it. It will be a perfect copy which you can restore later if needed. But imagine, you are copying a document while Word is writing into it at the same time.
It might happen that while the data from the end of the file getting copied Word overwrites the beginning of the file with new version of data, making your copy a corrupted document which might not even open next time. The same but with higher probability can happen to the system files since Windows always updates its data.
Professional disk image software like Active@ Disk Image can overcome this problem by using so called shadow copy technique. Disk backup software is also able to use this technique.
Unfortunately other complications exist. Disk backup software can save individual files but cannot make a working image of the whole system.
In other words to be able to get your Windows back you need software making copy of all internal file system structures and hidden data and able to recreate them. This class of software is called disk image software and Active@ Disk Image is a good example of such a software.
When using Active@ Disk Image user selects a whole disk where Windows is installed and asks it to create an image (or disk backup). This image contains all the data necessary to restore the system as it was before the failure.
Restoring the system disk or partition is not trivial though. You cannot replace existing system files with Windows running. To overcome this problem Active@ Disk Image uses a proprietary software called Active@ Boot Disk to boot from a CD/DVD or USB and restore data from an image over malfunctioning Windows partition. Active@ Boot Disk is based on a lightweight version of Windows and be able to boot directly from CD without any operating system installed and it is used for all kinds of data repairs when system Windows partition cannot be used.
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