Powercopy Hard Drive Copy Functions
Home-
Clone
(25%
slower)
V4.2
Pro-
Clone
V4.2

Professional-
PLUS
V5

Home-C
Pro-C
Pro-Logic
Pro- Logic
Copying methods
 Clone your hard drive1:1Copying of hard disk  (Clone)  Info....

only via
HD -> Image
Image -> HD

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 . Hard disk clone via network
. HD-PC1 -> Network(LAN) -> HD-PC2  
NEW at version 4.0! Info....

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  Limiting copy area to partition limits Info....
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 1:1 protected Backup - safe procedure  Info....

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 Save all hard drive sectors to compressed image filesCreating an partition-image-file(s) of individual partitions   Info....
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 Festplatteninhalt in Dateiform speichernCreating an disk-image-file(s) of an entire hard disk   Info....
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 Restore of partition- and full hard drive images even without rebooting directly inside NT4/2000/2003/XP (except restore of an active system partition which has to be restored by Powercopy Boot CD or any other Dos or Windows Boot CD)  Info....
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 NEW at version 4.0!Turbo copy mode. Unsed areas on FAT12/16/32 and NTFS partitionsare may be excluded during copy( analyse of used clusters ) Even old operating systems like DOS/ Win95 / 98/ ME can be copied by us of a Windows XP or XP-PE Boot CD. Info....
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 100% sector by sector / bit by bit copy mode Info....
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 Copy partitions to another drivedirect copy from Partition HD1 to Partition HD2
All hard drive copy function even by us of the peer to peer connectionNEW at version 4.0! ... even by use of the Powercopy direct cable connection feature! Info....
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 Support copying to larger hard disk.
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 NEW at V4.2! Image restore with shrink and extend capabilities on NTFS partitions atNT/200x/XP/VISTA

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NEW at V4.2! Data security card "Reborn Card" support


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requires company/class room license

 NEW at version 4.0! Restore of partitions in DOS and Windows with optional extend of NTFS partitions Info....

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NEU in V5! Enhanced Hard drive copy mode (Easy Clone Mode) Copy a hard disk drives with just a few cliks to a new bigger one. more..



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NEU in V5! Mini hard disk editor
(Sector save, change, write inside Windows) more..


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requires company/volume license

     
 

NEU in V5! Enhanced support for drive going defective more..


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requires company/volume license

 

NEU in V5! Convert dynamic disk back to basic disks
(if dyn. disk is on a single disk) more..


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requires company/volume license

Transfer methods
 locally, USB1.1/2.0, 1394(400/800) within computer including external hard disks/memory sticks, Compact-Flash and other Info....
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  via network (Image) (and from V4 even Secor by sector 1:1 hard drive copy via network)  Info....
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 Simple to use peer to peer file transfervia PC-PC-peer to peer direct cable connection (parallel interface) Info....

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Individual functions
 Restore of partition images or disk images Info....
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 Variable restore of partition-images with partition positioning e.g. to the beginning or to the end of a hard drive. By use of this function you can even move partitions. Info.... 


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 Separate compare operation between source data and target data    Info....

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 Clean unused disk areas with predefined patternWashing of hard disk to reduce volume and run time Info....
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 Read error processing  Info....
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A lot of different hard drive erase functionsA lot of functions to erase or identifying/marking hard drive/partition/MBR  Info....

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 CRC32 check sum monitoring  Info....

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 Test / simulation to determine image size and run-time  Info....
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 Automated creation of Powercopy job files for repeated tasks even without any user intervention  Info....
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 Multilingual (German/English reversible with F5 key in main function menu) Info....
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 Booting, also from USB memory sticks  (depending on mainboard BIOS support)   Info....
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 Copying and restoring of images on USB memory sticks  Info....

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 Automatic network adaptation  to a Windows network (TCP/IP or NETBEUI protocol) using the Powercopy BOOTCD  Info....
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 Toggle active harddrive without any boot mangerShield hard disk!
Access protection or alternative start of operating systems.  Info....
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 NEW at version 4.0! FAT32 hard drive quick formatting tool upto 2000GB.
Ignore the limitation inside NT4/2000/2003/XP   Info....
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  Automatic batch processing, may be carried out even without any user interaction
(full- and half automate)  Info....

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 Process driven user dialogs dependent on selected task Info....
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 Support of all MS operating systems and booting via DOS or any Windows XP(or XP-PE) Boot CD  
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 Support of USB, Firewire, ATA, P-ATA, S-ATA and SCSI hard drives  Info....
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* Kind of license
private user ,
no business usage allowed
business usage on one computer  only
technician license for a single technician, to repair and maintanence computers up to 20 a year, other wise see volume/site license prices
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Support of Windows Server(200/2003) operating system?
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DYNAMIC-Disk support?
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nicht relevant
* E-Mail- and phone service during german business times
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Volume licenses available
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Company/site/department licenses available
   details 
* 1 year free support and update by e-mail on demand

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Powercopy Professional Restore has same features as Version Professional PLUS, but without feature creating image files. 
Powercopy Multi Clone has same features as Version Professional PLUS, and can clone 4 ATA/SATA hard drives at once.


This features applies only to version Powercopy Professional Logic

(available too in Powercopy Professional Plus)
Fast file exchange even with DOS computers
Feature list of Powercopy peer to peer logical file transfer
( PC-PC peer to peer file transfer via
high speed Powercopy parallel cable )
LPT: Turbo (DMA) transfer speed
LPT: ECP-(DMA-lose) transfer speed
LPT: Bidirectionale transfer speed
DOS Support
OS-MIX between WIN NT4, Windows2000, XP WIN98/95, MS-DOS, OS/2-Dosbox, FreeDos, Win3.11 allowed?
support of long file names non 8.3 in DOS mode
CRC32 checksum file list generator (helpful to detect virus)
Fileserver support (/get), if Powercopy is used to transfer/install SW-packages
filelist integrety checker (/check)
(e.g. detect after a new program installation which system files has been changed)
multiple file select attributes (name,date,size) 
selection. Wildcards are allowed.
file deselection supported
(don't transfer files you don't like)
copy flags (overwrite all, newer, different..) supported
Permission to use for PC-Service technician?
Detection of  over 40 parallel chips(Superio's). ( Only needed if you want to setup the parallel chip to ECP without using BIOS or OS.)
Enhanced commandline features like /cd /md with wildcard *? support
Support: We speek german and english. + e-mail