Many people underestimate the great importance of keeping their files properly backed up, while others might make the mistake of forgetting about something important. After all, not everyone keeps all of their important files in the most obvious of places. As such, by far the most exhaustive way to back up your computer and ensure that nothing gets forgotten about is to use disk imaging software. LSoft Technologies, one of the world's leading data security and recovery specialists presents Active@ Disk Image, a powerful utility that will create a byte-by-byte image of your hard disk so that everything, including your operating system and programs, is safely backed up. However, it also works with most other data storage devices, including USB drives and memory cards.

Active@ Disk Image offers two different methods for creating hard disk images. With one option, you'll be able to create a sector-by-sector image which includes areas of the disk marked as free space. As such, the backup will be the same size as the disk itself. This is useful if you need to recover deleted data externally using a solution such as Active@ UNDELETE. Alternatively, you can save disk space by creating a system image that only copies occupied sectors, so that the disk image is the same size as all of the occupied space on the hard disk or other drive that is being backed up.

The latest edition of Active@ Disk Image, version 7, provides a number of tweaks and improvements including the ability to display the progress of scheduled running tasks on the taskbar, various new interface and performance tweaks and improved memory usage and 64-bit compatibility. Learn more at http://www.disk-image.com/