BounceBack Ultimate HD Backup and Instant Recovery Software
Best backup/recovery software ever created.
Bounceback Professional is the easiest and most effective utility program I ever bought for my PC.  The steps of this software is simple; just connect a backup hard drive into your PC and install the Bounceback Professional.  A very easy setup guide on the setup window (probrably 2 or 3 click of your mouse)will create a carbon-copy from your boot disk drive into your back up disk drive.  Although the first hard drive backup takes at least an hour to complete, you don't have to stand by with your PC.   Bounceback Professional will do the rest for you after you complete your setup such as creating an automatic, routine backup schedule and setting up a drive destination. <br /> <br />I have also experience the recovery process under this software and I have to tell you that Bounceback works like a dream.  The PC that I have to use the Bounceback Professional is the new HP media center PC (a1410n).  I have no choice but to buy an external drive in this model because it has so many components inside this particular HP tower .  Ironically, I have to perform a full disk recovery with that model because the Norton Internet Security 2006 software included in the computer package corrupt my operating system files.  To make a recovery from an external hard drive, you must use the Rescue Disk included in the Bounceback Professional package.  The Rescue CD will turn your DOS screen into a cakewalk by connecting the external drive into the USB port along with your mouse, monitor, and keyboard.  Turn on your PC, insert the Rescue CD into the CD drive, and type \\"image\\" once the command menu is display on your monitor.  Press \\"enter\\" after you type \\"image\\" and YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT IT(your computer of course).  The Rescue CD will do the rest of the complications for you.  Once the recovery is finish (approx. 1 hour), reboot your PC  and explore the exact copy of OS without any problems.  Amazing! <br />  <br />The new 2006 version of Bounceback Professional requires either internal or external hard drives that has an equivilent or more disk space than the primary hard drive.  Although I have an external hard drive for backup, internal drives performs better with Bounceback.  I prefer internal hard drive compatable towers with this product because if the operating system fails to start in your primary hard disk drive (HDD), your internal backup drive will automatically 'take over' you PC (I also use to have an internal hard drive).  The only way you can tell you drive change is to go to the \\"My Computer\\" icon and see your disk drive switch in reversable order (example: E: and F: is on top of C: and D:) <br /> <br />Overall, this is a must have if you have a lot of stuff in your computer (games, photo, music, documents, etc.).  If anything else happen to my files, at least I will feel comfortable when it comes to perform system recovery on my computer.