

It guarantees your data will be restorable should your critical operating system files become corrupted, although it obviously won’t withstand mechanical disk failure. This is a hidden partition on your hard disk, which stores the backup out of reach of viruses and other malicious software. Uniquely this month, True Image also offers another backup location: the Acronis Secure Zone. As you’d expect, you can back up to local and network hard disks, FireWire and USB devices, magneto-optical, Iomega Zip and Jaz drives without any extra software.

Since this software is provided as standard with most PCs, it’s a minor issue. In fact, our only gripe is that True Image is one of just two packages on test (the other being Centered System’s Second Copy) to require third-party packet-writing software in order to back up to CD or DVD.
