My Working Computer

About a year ago I bought my first SATA hard disk. I spent about a week trying to copy everything from my old disk to that one and make it boot. No luck. Then I found Casper XP from Future Systems. Casper XP will make an entire backup of whatever disk you have to whatever other disk you have (be it larger, smaller, different interface, even connected by USB), that is bootable so you can swap in the copy and continue working from the new disk. After the hassle I had been through, I thought it would be worth the $50 purchase to finally get my disk working without having to reinstall everything. With Casper XP, 5 minutes of configuration and an hour of disk activity, I did what I could not do in an entire week without it. I was satisfied with my purchase.
Since then, I’ve been using Casper XP to make scheduled backups of my entire hard disk. It’s nice to know that if my disk ever fails, I can just put in my backup drive and in five minutes loose no more than 2 days worth of changes.
Just today I tried to install a RAID controller and a second SATA hard disk, but before reconfiguring anything, I made sure I had a current backup from Casper onto my external drive. In the process of configuring my RAID drives, my primary disk became unreadable. No problem! I just swapped in my backup disk and I’m up and running again in no time! I’m pretty excited about the way Future Systems keeps saving me from myself.
I just wish they had a product that would keep me from cutting myself while shaving.