When the Paragon tool is started, an assistant appears, which guides the user by copying and creating images. So you can work with the program under Windows, without having looked into the extensive manual. Drive Backup leaves Windows only with a reboot when it comes to creating an image of the active partition. The cloning happens then, just before XP boots. The reason for this precautions is that during the copying, no other program is allowed to access the partition to be duplicated. Otherwise, the data will be changed during cloning, which could compromise data integrity.
If a Windows system is not active on a computer, such as a new installation, a DOS version of DriveBackup can be started via a Windows 98 / ME boot diskette. The DOS tool is available in two versions, the master version being for network access. We found a surprise when compressing the images with Drive Backup. Whether the compression was on or off, the image files always had the same size.
It is expected that Paragon will fix this bug by an update. Well, in the test, the hard disk was copied. All operating systems including Linux could be used without errors after the copy. At the speed the program could keep up well. If you want to extract files from the created images, use the Image Mounter from Drive Backup. In Windows XP, he creates a virtual hard disk drive with all the data contained in the image. So you can access the image as if it were a separate partition.
DriveBackup lost all the necessary burning and partitioning features. If you do not want to do without it, you can access Paragon's Paragon Disk Manager (59.95 Euro), which contains a disk partitioning tool. Otherwise the user will get an easy-to-use program with DriveBackup with good support for the important file systems.
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