ImageCopy Functionality

Hard Disk Cloning

Disaster Recovery

Functionality

An Installation Marathon ... or ImageCopy

Anyone who has installed a computer at some time, even once, knows what an "installation marathon" is : You merely install the operating system and the applications, and a few hours have already passed. Now, if, for example, you have to set up 10 similar PCs , you must do the same work 10 times, unless, of course, you use ImageCopy. After a system crash, or during in-house training, the restoration of user data and programs can only be started after the installation of the operating system. If the hard disk contained several operating systems, the effort required was multiplied. All this work, on the one hand, needs a lot of time and on the other hand, highly-paid skilled staff. If you use ImageCopy, this wastage of time and money will be a thing of the past, once and for all. ImageCopy copies entire hard disks either from disk to disk (Hard-Disk Cloning) or from an image file, and generates a complete operating system installation with all the user programs (Disaster Recovery).

What is Hard-Disk Cloning?

Hard-Disk Cloning copies entire hard disks bit by bit, so that all the data such as e.g. the Registry or the long file names of Windows 95 are available on the hard disk exactly as they were on the original. During this process, even the different parameters of the original and target disk (such as different number of sectors or heads of the disks) can be reconciled, and all other hard disk-specific data (such as the Boot Manager of Windows NT) can be automatically adjusted. With ImageCopy, you can copy your master disk, generated once, quickly and easily to any number of target disks, which may, in fact, even be smaller than the master disk, since the size of FAT and FAT32 partitions can be freely changed; There is no need to do any formatting and partitioning of the target disks; that is done automatically by the program during the copying. Other file systems such as the NTFS of Windows NT, HPFS of OS/2 or the Novell File System are transferred bit by bit, with the sizes of the partitions remaining unchanged.

For what do I need Disaster-Recovery ?

From now on, when your computer gives up the ghost, you can save yourself the tedious re-installation of the operating system followed by the restoration of the backup. Simply boot the machine with your ImageCopy Advanced Edition diskette and restore the previously generated image file to your (new) hard disk. With this hard disk, restored bit by bit, you can then immediately resume your work. In this case also, the differences between the source disk from which the image file has been generated and the target disk are compensated automatically and as is the case with Hard-Disk Cloning, FAT or FAT32 partitions can be enlarged and reduced as desired as long as the existing data fits into the target disk.