but when 'restoring' I make sure to slow down and pay extra attention since if you are not careful and go-through-the-motions, you could potentially wipe the wrong hard drive (assuming you got multiple HDD's in the first place). when I make a image I pretty much know what to select almost instinctively by what the screen looks like and not much risk here. but it does give you two warning screens before doing anything potentially destructive.

It's not super easy to use, so if you want super easy you will have to go with something else (but it's easy enough once you learn source/destination etc), but it works outside of the OS (it runs from a bootable CD/DVD or USB stick, so it does not matter if you got Windows or Linux it will work) as it's a rock solid way to restore your system to a EXACT state it was at the time you imaged it (so any files added/changed/deleted since won't matter since the image restored will be EXACTLY like it was at the time you imaged it, meaning it's like the whole drive you are restoring is essentially wiped and restored to exactly how it is in the image file).

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