[The Piney]

http://www.giveawayo...remium-edition/

Very nice addition...

Giveaway of the Day - Returnil Virtual System Premium Edition

April 25, 2008 The Returnil Virtual System Premium Edition is a powerful virtualization technology that completely mirrors your actual computer setup and it can create a virtual storage disk within your PC where you can save documents, data, and files while using the System Protection feature.

[hilander999]

http://www.giveawayo...knowledge-base/

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General Knowledge Base is an innovative knowledge management software allowing an easy and effective management of all types of knowledge bases. It is an optimal tool for categorizing and finding articles, documents or data. It allows user to keep documents systemized, to add notes and attachments, capture and store web pages from the web.

Easy access to an organization’s knowledgebase either on LAN, WAN or Internet is also provided.

Although this one won't be good for everyone, there are a few names that come to mind that may find it quite helpfull.

[Joshua]

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

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Giveaway of the Day - EASEUS Partition Manager Server
You may improve the performance of your Windows Server with this comprehensive partition tool. EASEUS Partition Manager Server Edition is the only partitioning tool you will ever need.

Joshua

[stidyup]

Just downloaded it now.

[stidyup]

Giveawayoftheday

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Macrium Reflect is an award winning disk imaging and file backup solution for Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003.

Disk Imaging: Using the latest compression and multi threading techniques, Macrium Reflect has unrivalled disk imaging speed. Full, differential and incremental images can be restored or mounted as a virtual drive in Windows Explorer.

System Recovery: Macrium Reflect is the only imaging solution to offer Linux, BartPE, *and* Windows PE 2.0 based system recovery options.

File backup: Backup files and folders to a compressed virtual drive in Windows. Restore your data with a simple wizard or use Windows Explorer copy and paste.

Features
File Backup

* Create a single backup file of one or more folders on you hard disk
* Include and exclude filter ensures that you only backup relevant files.
* Browse the backup file as a virtual FAT32 hard drive in Windows Explorer.
* Files in use by Windows (such as Outlook .pst files) are backed up even when locked!
* Multiple compression levels.
* Backup files can be saved to local or network drives or optical storage (CD, DVD)
* Optionally exclude system and hidden files.
* Supports Incremental and Differential backups.
* Password protect backups to prevent unauthorized access.
* Restore specific files or the entire backup.
* Restore to any location.

Disk Imaging

* Create a single backup file of a complete hard disk
* Create a single backup file of one or many partitions
* Restore a partition to a different type. e.g. a logical partition can be restored as a bootable primary partition
* Resize the restored partition. A hard disk upgrade can easily be performed by increasing the partition to fill the new disk.
* Track 0 (The Master Boot Record) is saved with all backups.
* Backup files can be saved to local or network drives or optical storage (CD, DVD).
* Disk image can be created whilst Windows is in use.
* Verify images. Images (Backup files) can be separately verified or automatically verified before restore.
* System files such as ‘pagefile.sys’ and ‘hiberfile.sys’ are not included in the image.
* Three compression levels can be selected to optimize between file size and speed.
* Password protect images to prevent unauthorized access.
* AES 256 bit encryption for ultimate security.
* Set image filenames automatically.

Comes with a BartPE plugin.

[Joshua]

Seems to be a very usefull tool !
Here the modification for ubcd4win.

macrium.inf

; PE Builder v3 plug-in INF file
;
; macrium.inf
; Macrium Reflect
; Modified for ubcd4win Joshua 06/16/2008

[Version]
Signature= "$Windows NT$"

[PEBuilder]
Name="Disk -Backup: Macrium Reflect"
Help="macrium.htm"
Enable=1

[WinntDirectories]
a="Programs\Macrium",2

[SourceDisksFiles]
files\ReflectPE.exe=a,,1
files\PEExplorer.exe=a,,1
files\psmounter.sys=a,,1

[SetupReg.AddReg]

[Software.AddReg]

[SetValue]

[Append]
nu2menu.xml, macrium.xml

macrium.xml

<!-- Nu2Menu entry for Macrium Reflect -->
<NU2MENU>
        <MENU ID="Programs">
                <MITEM TYPE="POPUP" MENUID="Disk Tools">Disk Tools</MITEM>
        </MENU>
        <MENU ID="Disk Tools">
                <MITEM TYPE="POPUP" MENUID="Backup">Backup and Cloning</MITEM>
        </MENU>
        <MENU ID="Backup">       
                <MITEM TYPE="ITEM" DISABLED="@Not(@FileExists(@GetProgramDrive()\Programs\Macrium\reflectPE.exe))" CMD="RUN" FUNC="@GetProgramDrive()\Programs\Macrium\reflectPE.exe">Macrium Reflect</MITEM>
        </MENU>
</NU2MENU>

Next step is to make a plugin, that can do more, then only restore !

Joshua

[stidyup]

http://www.macrium.com/ReflectFree.asp

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The fastest disk imaging software is now available as a free edition.

Absolutely free! No strings! The only free XP and Vista compatible disk imaging software with BartPE and Linux based recovery options.

* Create a disk image whilst running Windows using Microsoft Volume Shadow copy Service (VSS).
* Image to Network, USB, FireWire drives and DVD.
* Built in scheduler.
* 32 bit and native 64 bit versions.
* Industry leading compression levels and speed.
* Linux based Rescue CD with Network access and full GUI. Only 6.5MB in size!
* Built in CD/DVD packet writing engine. Supports packet writing to DVD DL media with Windows Vista.
* HTML log files.

If you don't get the full version today there is this version that is free.

[Jotnar]

Multiboot plugin for the linux bits isn't hard either. Its just a kernel and an initrd. Mix with the appropriate ISOLinux config and Voila! (of course I guess you could also just boot the iso with BCDW...)

I was thinking that you don't really need a plugin for the full version, just the free one. If you're booting into PE to image your system you're probably not that concerned with incremental images, though I suppose there is the Server 2003 support in the full version...

All in all it seems to be a pretty nice program. Linux, BartPE, and Windows PE recovery options. Now that's what all imaging products should offer (the native 64bit support is nice too).

Cheers

[stidyup]

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

GOAT: Data Recovery Wizard Professional v3.3.4

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Best Data Recovery Software & File Undelete Tool for FAT and NTFS file systems in Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server. Computer data recovery software is a best data recovery software for Computer data recovery security. And Data Recovery Wizard Professional is just one of these programs, and it is the only computer data recovery software you will ever need.

[The Piney]

4.3.6 was a GiveAway on April 10th... Are they going backwards now? I still have the other installed and have the plug-in for my UBCD4Win setup...

Reading the posts on the download page I see where someone states that version 4.3.6 doesn’t support Windows 95/98/ME/NT whereas this version does.

The readme file for 4.3.6 states:

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Provides partition recovery from FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3 file systems.

Supports IDE/ATA, SATA, SCSI, Dynamic Disk, USB, Fire wire (IEEE1394) hard drive and other media such as Floppy Disk, USB Flash Drive, Digital Camera, Digital Audio Player and so on.

So it should support Windows 9x/ME/NT...

[stidyup]

I did wonder why they had released.

Perhaps they main it won't install and run on Win98/ME etc...

[stidyup]

http://www.giveawayo...m/hdd-observer/

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HDD Observer is a powerful monitoring and repairing tool for your hard drives.

HDD Observer can detect a lot of hard drives troubles and give a solution for them:

* Monitor hard drives health, performance and temperature
* Monitor hard drives activity and show it in a system tray icon
* Check file system fragmentation and registry fragmentation
* Defragment file system and registry
* Automatically and real-time find and remove un-needed files and registry values
* Schedule for all major disk tools
* Low memory usage.

[The Piney]

http://www.giveawayo...nti-malware-35/

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Giveaway of the Day - a-squared Anti-Malware 3.

August 2, 2008a-squared Anti-Malware keeps your computer free from Trojans, Spyware, Adware, Worms, Keyloggers, Rootkits, Dialers and other malicious programs. There are many anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-dialer software products but only a few of them can claim to provide effective protection from all types of Malware. The main reason for this is the eternal cat and mouse game played for decades between Malware programmers and the security industry.

Normal security software is limited by the fact that it can only recognize Malware for which the manufacturer has already created a signature - assuming that the manufacture even has a copy of the Malware available for analysis.

Emsi Software has now turned the tables and no longer trails behind the Malware authors. a-squared Anti-Malware does not identify damaging software purely on the basis of signatures, but also looks at how it behaves. This means that you will be protected from the hundreds of new Trojans, Worms, Dialers, Rootkits and Spyware that appear every day.

NB: This download includes full technical support and updates for 1 year.

[hilander999]

Giveaway of the Day - Partition Recovery Bootable CD

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Partition Recovery Bootable CD is the DOS Partition Recovery software for hard disk partition repair and partition recovery. It’s designed to resolve the partitions with an error, recover the deleted, lost and corrupt FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, EXT2, EXT3, SWAP partitions on IDE, ATA, SATA, SCSI and removable hard drive.

Partition Recovery Bootable CD could recover the bad partitions when your Operating System fails to boot. It provides very useful functions: Backup partition table, Restore partition table, Rebuild partition table, Fixboot, Check Partition Properties, Check Partition error.

So much as, it permits you to configure every parameter of the partition table in DOS system. In addition, Partition Recovery Bootable CD provides some other useful functions: active partition, hide partition, surface test, rebuild MBR (Master Boot Record), edit sectors, copy sectors and so on.

[stidyup]

Just about to post that you've beat me to it.