Chart 2. Percentage of computer ownership by age group, Consumer ...Everone knows back ups are part and parcel of sensible computer ownership. You delete something you shouldn’t or your hardrive fails – and you have your backup to replace it all. No problem.

Not everyone bothers to schedule backups, but that’s another story. This is about something that will help those who are interested enough to take backups and who are intelligent enough to want to make the most of backing up.

Backing up and restoring data is one thing, but the time labor intensive, consuming part is gathering and reinstalling all your software. Here is the solution.

This type of backup software is the 80-20 tool that will reduce all you software to a single file that is copied directly to your newly installed hard disk. Once that’s done your PC will boot up again as if nothing had happened. Oh yes it will.

Find out what a disk imaging utility can do for you and which product to get hold of to complete your backup suite.