This little piece of software is an absolute favorite of mine, its a necessity that has made my life much easier, its a easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. The program allows you to backup logical drives and partitions to image files, browse these images, view and extract files, restore these images to the same or a different drive, copy directly from drive to drive.

With DriveImaga XML you don’t need to worry about windows crashes, system failures or anything of that sort, You can use the program to create an image of your C partition and store that image on a different partition, or on a DVD, and if god forbid your windows crashes or your drive dies, there is no problem, all you need to do is run DriveImage, navigate to the restore file you created and within minutes you can have your PC restored its original state.

and because it uses Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Services (VSS), it allows you to create safe “hot images” even from drives currently in use. Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process them with 3rd party tools, so you’ll never again be stuck with a useless backup. Restore images to drives without having to reboot. DriveImage XML also runs from a WinPE boot CD-ROM. Which is also another excellent tool you need to have, The WinPE boot CD is basically a stripped down Windows XP Live CD (meaning you run Win XP directly from the CD) which comes pre-istalled with some applications you need to troubleshoot and fix your pc.

This program is fast, effecient, small, and FREE. I am not going into the details of how to use, because if you decide to give it a try, i am certain you’ll be able to figure it out by yourself, its really that awesome. You can download it from the publishers website where you will also find detailed instructions for using it with the WinPE boot CD-ROM.

DriveImage XML runs under Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista. The program will backup, image and restore drives formatted with FAT 12, 16, 32 and NTFS.

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With the latest data backup applications like DriveIamge XML, data security in case of any hard drive failure is much more convenient than any other conventional method that required the physical access to the backup computer files. Specially when there is an online file sharing, there is an acute need of the online backup facility to ensure the proper recovery of the data along with data recovery hardware.