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A perfect computer backup and hard disk recovery program that allows you to create hard disk drive images and file backups. Acronis® True Image Home 2010 helps you back up computer data and clone hard disk drives (HDD).

Acronis has stepped up its interface not only with an improved, Vista-like look, but with more-logical placement of options, a much better workflow, and much clearer language. Even the help file is friendlier. Combine the program’s nascent sociability with new features–such as One-Click backup, nonstop backup, and online backup–that are actually of use to the average customer, and 2010 is easily the best update to the program in years.

One-click backup is designed to allow less-experienced users to back up as…

1. About Acronis True Image Home 2010

Acronis True Image is a disk imaging software, developed by Acronis, that creates backups and recovers PC systems.

Price: 14 day trial $49.99 to buy
Operating system: Windows XP/Vista;
Version: Home 2010

Publisher’s description: 
Acronis True Image Home 2010 allows you to create an image of a disk while it is running Microsoft Windows or offline by booting from CD/DVD, USB flash drives, PXE, or other bootable media. As a disk imaging software, True Image Home 2010 can restore the previously captured image to another disk, replicating the structure and contents to the new disk, also allowing disk cloning and partition resizing, as well if the new disk is…

What is DeepSpar Disk Imager?
DeepSpar Disk Imager is a disk imaging tool built to solve disk-level problems and to recover bad sectors on a hard drive.

Main Features of DeepSpar Disk Imager:

• DeepSpar Disk Imager is able to retrieve up to 90 percent of bad sectors that are partially corrupted and cannot be cloned/imaged by ordinary means.
• While system software, such as BIOS or OS, tries to prevent you from retrieving and copying corrupted data, DeepSpar Disk Imager bypasses it to give you access to all available data, good and bad.
• Special vendor-specific ATA commands are used that pre-configure the hard drive for imaging, reduce the number of read operations and the

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This is the list for the most popular Disk Image sharewares worldwide. And also you can find the Disk Image Freewares from another post in my blog.

1. Shareware: Acronis True Image
Version: 2009
Acronis True Image Home 2009 is an award-winning backup and recovery solution for a good reason: it protects your PC after just one click and allows you to recover from viruses, unstable software downloads, and failed hard drives. Create an exact copy of your PC and restore it from a major failure in minutes, or back up important files and recover them even faster.

2. Shareware: Drive Backup
Version: 9.0 Pro
Protect your hardware, undo software malfunctions or crashes, and safeguard your…

Drives presented for recovery sometimes have some heads or surfaces damaged (physical damage). The problem is severe enough for the drive to stop working in its native system. However, with the latest upgraded Data Compass DCEXP utility, it is possible now (before installation of MHA replacement) to create a copy of data using the remaining good surfaces or drive heads; small files can even be recovered directly.

What’s more, this procedure will also be essential in cases:

1. When the drive is having read instability problem: by reading the surfaces one by one, it greatly reduces the seek time & times, smoothes the reading of the data, thus in some cases the original “damaged” head or…

Image from the HDD with serious bad sectors in the Data Area by Data Compass.

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