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In order to keep from contributing towards increasing the height of the mountains of paper which probably exist in all editorial rooms, we have decided to present the press information on our products on the Internet.

In keeping this press text correspondingly short, we have not been able to present - by a long shot - all the facilities that are provided in our various editions. For additional information, please look under Products, where you can also find a comparison of the facilities of the various editions in tabular form.

Naturally, we would be happy to provide you with additional information and details at any time. Please give us a call or send us an e-mail or a fax (see Contact). In addition, we would also be happy to provide a review copy for detailed testing purposes, so that you would be able to convince yourself about the comprehensive facilities and the incredibly high speed of our products.

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The press text available here on the various editions of ImageCopy can also be downloaded as a zipped WinWord 6.0 File (35 KB) by clicking here. In addition, you can also get Screenshots (12 KB) of the programs and a photograph (112 KByte) of the packing of our software.

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Click here, to get a screenshot of the Standard Edition (setting the partition sizes), or here for the display during the copy, with the Advanced Edition. A preview of the photograph of the packing of the software can be seen here.

Hard Disk Cloning and Disaster Recovery with ImageCopy

Earlier, when several computers with the same configuration had to be shipped, the operating system and all the relevant programs had to be installed separately on each machine. After a system failure, too, there was a tedious procedure for first installing the operating systems and the backup software before actually restoring the data.

The software ImageCopy copies either hard disk to hard disk or saves an entire drive in a comPress Informationd image file, from which, at a later time, a new disk can be generated. The target disk does not have to be either formatted or partitioned for this purpose and can have parameters which are totally different from the original disk. When copying, ImageCopy customizes all the partitions to the parameters of the target disk and if required, even modifies the Windows-NT Bootmanager, so that even disks with mixed operating systems such as DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2 and Novell-Netware can be copied. Partitions with a FAT or FAT32 file system can also be enlarged or reduced to optimally use the space on the target disk. Both IDE as well as SCSI disks can be copied. The program is easy to use, even for the technical layman, because of its comfortable graphical user interface with mouse control.

To be able to offer the best price/performance ratio for the various requirements, we offer a total of 3 different versions.

The ImageCopy Standard Edition copies entire hard disks directly from disk to disk in the same computer and is mainly intended for occasional copying e.g. when upgrading to a larger hard disk, but it is also possible to use it for disk cloning for a small production operation.

For the professional: ImageCopy Advanced Edition

The ImageCopy Advanced Edition which is mainly intended for professional use, additionally provides a number of facilities which are not available in other produces. Thus, this software can also store complete hard disks as comPress Informationd image files, e.g. on the network, to be able to generate a new hard disk later from them. These (optional, password-protected ) Imagefiles can also be created on Jaz or Zip drives and it is even possible to spread them across several media or to limit the size of these files, so that, for example, if you have space problems, the program simply continues to write to another drive. If the image file is burnt to a CD-ROM, the entire operating system with all applications can be automatically installed by the built-in batch mode of the program. Just inserting the ImageCopy diskette and the CD-ROM followed by powering-on of the computer is enough to get a completely configured system in a very short time! ImageCopy Advanced Edition is thus also the first choice in training operations: with the configurations changing frequently, the installations which are required in each case can be copied from the network to the workstations without too much effort.

Different copying modes have been provided for the various requirements. Thus, even if hard disks are already defective, ImageCopy Advanced Edition can come to the rescue: because of the facility of carrying out up to 99 read attempts per sector, as much as possible is copied from the source disk to a new hard disk, where any repairs to the file system that may be necessary can be carried out, since there is also an option to copy the complete partition (not just the sectors which have been used). An extermely fast "Sector Optimized Mode" copies a complete Windows 95 installation in 30 seconds (!) from disk to disk, an automatic cylinder head-sector remapping procedure even facilitates copying of disks which could not run in the existing computer owing to a differently implemented LBA mode. When using the "Raw Copy Mode" (bit by bit copying mode without tailoring according to the new disk geometry), even operating systems not used on PCs can be copied successfully in many cases.

Highly accessible systems with ImageCopy

The special low-priced ImageCopy Advanced Edition "Recovery Only" is a limited version of the Advanced Edition full version and restores the image files generated by the full version to a hard disk. The end-customer can thus be offered the security of an extremely fast and simple restoration of his system at a low cost: the support-providing system house generates, using the Advanced Edition full version, an image file of the customer's hard disk, which may even be password protected if required, and copies it to a CD-R; by storing this CD-R and a diskette of ImageCopy Advanced Edition "Recovery Only", the end-customer is in a position to reconfigure his system himself - including the standard backup software being used- by simply switching on the computer after previously inserting the diskette and CD-R. Any changes which may have taken place since the generation of the CD-R can then be restored from the conventional tape backups.

All three editions can be ordered either directly from the manufacturer, demmel products in A-1100 Vienna (Wien) / Austria, tel. number +43-1-6894700-0 or in Germany, from, among others, Hantz + Partner in D-79194 Gundelfingen, telephone number in Germany +49-761-592 10-0. For further information, there is a demo version http://www.demmel.com available; or if required, a fully functional trial version is available for copying three times.

The prices for the various editions are as follows:
Standard Edition 115 US$ / 199 DM, Advanced Edition 399 US$ / 690 DM and Advanced Edition "Recovery Only" 85 US$ / 149 DM (all prices quoted are excluding VAT.).