Wipe dataWiping data is a process which allows users to completely erase data from a disk. When data is wiped, the sectors of the disk where files and folders were situated physically are rewritten with zeroes (the data can't be recovered) in contrast to a process of ordinary files deletion when only the pointer to the file in the file allocation table is deleted (files in this case can be restored).
Testimonials and User Comments
 I have used Ghost 2003 for my backups but always had problems with some of my 8 (!) computers. A few days ago I bought a Maxtor 80 Gb ext USB 1.1/2.0 hard drive. After wrestling for hours with downloads from Ghost and installing extra drivers from Ghost I finally got it to work on one computer. (Ghost works ok here most of the time, with partitions on the internal C: drive but last week one of my laptops lost the HD and of course the Ghost backup).
Ghost will not work with my old USB1 L10/10 Gb external hard drive.
After spending a few hours on google trying to find an answer, and reading Ghost horror stories, I came across Acronis True Image 6.0. After spending an other hour looking at reviews of that software I downloaded the Acronis software and put it on a cd. They have a special for $9.00 for users of Ghost!!!
Now get this! That software works on All of my computers and even the 4 year old USB 1 ,yes 1 not 1,1 ext hard drive. And it does it in Windows.
It is however not very fast but that is a minor trade off for me. The slow speed could be caused by my use of USB 1.1. I use XP, 98 SE, 2K. The recovery CD or 5 floppies will work on any computer or operating system or No operating system at all! So unlike Ghost you only need one recovery cd.
Look at the reviews in google, for $9.00 finally something that works! (At last for me)
Gene
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