Make the wrong choices, and you can roll back most changes with the BackStep Wizard. In any case, it pays to read the manual first with this product. Creating an image of your hard drive is one of the best ways to back up data. Image Commander creates image files of single partitions or a whole drive. Images may be compressed, and can be split into multiple smaller files for storage on removable media.
Images can also be password protected.
Although Image Commander's default settings created a smaller image file than competitor Norton Ghost 2001 during testing, it also took almost 50 percent more time. We also found restoring a partition to be a painful process, with Image Commander taking over an hour and 40 minutes to restore a 1.8GB image on a 1GHz system. In contrast, Ghost 2001 took about 22 minutes. Adding insult to injury, when you create a new partition with Image Commander the software hides it, requiring you to unhide it with Partition Commander. The process works, but don't be in a hurry to get it done.