A drive imaging program is a utility that creates a backup snapshot or image of your disk drives, most commonly your system drive. You can use that backup image to recover from system failures, spyware infections, installations gone wrong or any of the dozens of other things that can seriously mess up your PC. Every PC I own has a drive imaging utility installed and I use these regularly to make image backups of the C: drives. I simply can’t tell you just how many times I’ve been able to use these backup images to restore a non-working PC to perfect health. Restoring from an image only takes me minutes while a full Windows re-install can take many hours or even days when you take into account re-installing application programs. That’s why I recommend every PC should be imaged regularly using a reliable imaging program. Now let me tell you the harsh truth: when it comes to the best imaging program it’s a two horse race between the commercial products Acronis True Image and Norton Ghost with the freeware contenders trailing by a couple of miles. Not that there aren’t some usable freeware products; it’s just they aren’t in the same league when it comes to function, features and reliability. Choosing between True Image and Ghost is tough because they are both quality programs. That’s why I asked regular Support Alert contributor J.W. to review the latest versions of these products. In his normal methodical way he’s scrutinized each from top to bottom and pronounced one the winner. Find out which from J.W’s full review on the Support Alert web site. Just teasing actually, here’s what J.W. concluded: "I will be removing Symantec Ghost from my system. My recommendation and choice … for a disk-imaging program is Acronis True Image." Please do read J.W’s review though; it’s outstanding.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/drive-imaging-reviews.htm
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