Overview:

Hard Disk Cloning: Hard disk cloning software allows you to backup and restore an entire hard disk or partition. Other possibilities include network and multicast support to help administrative tasks.
The main module of a hard disk cloning program usually runs from DOS and requires some basic knowlegde of DOS commands and making a DOS boot floppy disk with the necessary drivers. But despite the often steap learning curve, hard disk cloning software is the most reliable solution for maintaining hard disk backups.

Drive Image Pro

• Version Number: 6
• Revision Date: 11 October 2002
• Licence: Commercial
• Manufacturer: PowerQuest
• Home Page: http://www.powerquest.com
• Description: Fully featured application to backup FAT, NTFS and Linux partitions, can compress, verify and rearrange images and clone remote pcs using a network connection. Offers strong multicasting capabilities and comes a number of utilities to examine and manipulate images, create the boot floppy disks necessary, examine and manipulate your partitions and write custom scripts to automate your tasks, including scheduled backups. Drive Image can span images and write them on removable media including CD-R(W) drives.
  

Ghost 2002 Enterprise

• Version Number: 7.5
• Revision Date: 26 March 2002
• Licence: Commercial
• Manufacturer: Symantec
• Home Page: http://www.symantec.com
• Description: Industry standard application to backup FAT, NTFS and Linux partitions, can compress, verify and rearrange images and clone remote pcs using network, USB or parallel connection. Offers strong multicasting capabilities and comes with a Windows graphical frontend called Ghost Explorer, a partitioning tool (G-Disk) and a wizard to help you create the boot floppy disks necessary. Includes AutoInstall which captures changes to a single Windows computer that you can deploy across a network. A reliable and very fast program which can span images and write them on removable media including CD-R(W) drives.
  

Instant Recovery

• Version Number: 3.1
• Revision Date: 11 October 2002
• Licence: Commercial
• Manufacturer: Novastor
• Home Page: http://www.novastor.com
• Description: Using a bootable set of 3 floppies, Instant Recovery uses a cut-down Linux distribution to boot into a graphical environment where you can backup and restore hard disks and partitions. It supports data verification, disk spanning and compression and can write to removable media and SCSI/ATAPI, FireWire and PCMCIA cd-r(w) drives. Supports a large number of SCSI controllers by default and can backup all kinds of formats, while it can be run under any operating system. Also supports USB keyboards and mice and a large number of graphics controllers and can create bootable backups.