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PerfectImage Professional creates an exact copy of your hard disk and lets you instantly restore the entire machine including operating system, applications and all data in the event of a fatal system crash or virus attack — no reinstallations required! Best of all, Perfect Image does all the work for you! It automates the process and backs up your music, video, photos, emails, contacts, calendar, tasks and user settings with just a few clicks. Protect your entire system and important data today! BENEFITS: 1) Backup and Restore all data: entire operating system; music, pictures and video; emails, contacts and calendar; and applications and settings. 2) Real-time Hard Disk Image Backup. Using different hard disk imaging modes, Perfect Image is able to backup any file system you use. For Windows' partitions you can create complete system backup images with no need to reboot Windows or close any application. 3) Backup Capsule. You can create special secure place on your hard disk to store disk backup images. You can also create bootable DVD/CD backup archives, save disk backup images on USB, FireWire and other external, local or network drives. 4) Differential Backup. Perfect Image allows users to create backup images of the changes performed since initial system backup, thus reducing the size of the further backup images. Differential backup along with a built-in scheduler delivers a completely automatic disk backup solution. 5) Data Restore and Recovery. Perfect Image delivers fast and easy data restore from a hard disk image. You can browse backup images and restore separate files and folders or entire partitions and hard disks. In case of an unbootable system, Perfect Image includes a powerful recovery CD. You can also create custom bootable recovery media containing backup images. 6) Hard Disk Cloning. You can easily clone your old hard disk to deploy a new one, eliminating tiresome and time consuming operating system and application installation and adjustments.

User Reviews about Perfect Image Professional

First off, the product page makes no mention of the version number: the version of Avanquest Perfect Image on sale here is 11 and Avanquest Perfect Image 11 is NOT compatible with Windows Vista 64-bit! This review is on the Avanquest Perfect Image 11 - if you're a Windows XP or a Vista 32-bit user, read on.

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When I saw the average user rating for Perfect Image 11, I navigated away from its product page faster than I was able hit the Back button on my browser. I discovered, however, that the ratings for the alternative products such as Acronis True Image, Paragon Drive Backup, Powerquest Drive Image, and Norton Ghost were less than stellar as well. I decided to give Perfect Image a whirl - and I'm glad I did.

Perfect Image does a superb job of making a clone (image) of your entire hard drive!


Hard Drive Image
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For making an image (clone) of your hard drive, there's no need to install Perfect Image. Simply boot up with the CD into a GUI interface. The GUI isn't as pretty as Vista (or even XP), but it gets the job done.

Here's the *caveat*:
There's NO surefire way to acertain that Perfect Image has successfully made an image of a hard drive other than to TEST the image by performing a restore of the image and verifying that the restored hard drive does in fact work (-1 Star).

In my experience, Perfect Image is fairly reliable for making an image of a hard drive but it does occasionally fail to produce a working/restorable hard drive image - so, test, test, test to make sure you've successfully produced a working image of your hard drive. (Occasionally, when doing a restore, you might get a message saying that the PFM file isn't found. Simply select Generate and Save from the list of options).

You can save your hard drive images onto CD's, DVD's, flashdrives, or external hard drives.

With Perfect Image, formating your hard drive and reinstalling all your applications from scratch (sound familiar?) is a thing of the past.

Backup
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If you plan on selectively backing up files on your computer, Perfect Image seems to be plagued with a multitude of problems from an excruciatingly slow backup process to incompatibilities with OSes to the application failing to load up altogether (-1 Star). If that's what you plan on using Perfect Image for, I'd recommend FolderMatch instead.

Conclusion
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It all depends on what you use Perfect Image for. Perfect Image is pretty darn near perfect for making images of your hard drive. But for selective backups, I'd recommend FolderMatch.
-- PERFECT For Making An IMAGE (Clone) of Your Hard Drive