7tools Partition Imager 2003 affords everything you may need to backup your data. It supports all commercial operating systems and is suitable for both everyday and rare needs, for both advanced and inexperienced users. It also provides the remote management over LAN through TCP/IP or IPX network protocols and allows to backup, clone or split any partitions of your hard disk, even rare ones and unknown by the program. 7Tools Partition Imager can create backup images and place them on both local drives and removable media, such as ZIP, JAZ, MO, or network drives. It also includes the SID changing utility and can split the backup images (used automatically for removable medias). Muliticast option, included in the program, allows to copy the partition/or disk image to dozens of PCs across the network. It happens at the same time so it takes much less time than loading image to each workstation. New options make the program even more secure and convenient - fast copying algorithm speeds up copying process in several times. (Partition Imager 2003 copies only necessary data without using operating system file I/O functions) , sector-by-sector copy allows you to MIRROR you drive – copy all sectors, even those marked as unused. You can copy even to damaged disks! Copying to the hard disks with bad sectors Partition Imager 2003 automatically arranges data to avoid bad sectors.