Image partition is a powerful and effective backup solution to protect against data loss.
The image file of the hard drive or hard drive partition created through the process of partition is then used to restore or recover a partition.
Also if a partition is virus affected or has got errors in it, then that particular partition can be deleted and re-created along with the existing data through the imaging process. This ensures that data already present on the partition is not lost and partition is free from viruses and errors.
There are various benefits of using image partition:
- Creation of image file for a partition or entire hard drive can be done on the fly without the need for rebooting or by stopping the operating system. This partitioning ensures that while the image is created all the other disk writings are stored in a cache.
- The image can be copied to another disk drive while it is being created or after the creation process.
- Partition image data can be compressed using compression tools (winzip, gzip, etc) so as to save hard drive space.
- The image file created through the process of image partition can be stored on removable media, storage devices, hard drives or remote locations.
- Image file can be given password protection to ensure that unauthorized users do not access it or get hold of it.
- Restoring data from drive image can be done on the fly, except on a system partition. To restore data on a system partition users need a bootable diskette to restore the data from the partition image.>
- The file system of the restored hard drive can be converted to another file system (FAT16 to NTFS, FAT16 to FAT32, etc).
- Image partition enable users to restore data from the partition image of one partition to another existing partition. This ensures that the data already present on the restoring partition is not lost or overwritten.
- Data from a drive image can be restored on a free (unpartitioned) space on any place on a hard drive. The size of the restored partition can be changed (increased).
- The partition image data can be copied or viewed by connecting as a read-only virtual drive.
Image partition is a powerful and efficient process of taking image files of existing partitions on the hard drive and then restoring those created partition images either on the original hard drive, on any particular partition or on free space available on the hard drive. This doesn't consume much time and is quite fast.
Imaging of the hard drive is very practical when identical computers are to be setup. The image file of one computer can be used to setup another computer saving time and costs. By choosing particular data and file selections from the partition image using image partition users can completely and easily restore system after disasters. This can be as a result of system crashes, heavy data loss caused by operating system, virus attacks, power failures or accidental formats to partitions.
Selection of particular data for restoration from the partition image can be achieved by connecting the image as a virtual disk and copying the desired files from the image partition using explorer or any other file utility.
The image of partition or hard drive created using image partition contains exact byte-by-byte copy of the partition or hard drive incorporating compression levels while running without stopping the operating system and interrupting business.
Many image partition software, tools and utilities exist in the market at affordable prizes. They aim at avoiding data loss to computer users and provide powerful recovery solutions.
Image partition is a very good backup and disaster recovery solution to avoid data loss from hard drive crashes, system failures and viruses.
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