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Isabella · Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 103

Disk Imaging is a specialized process of creating an exact image of the disk at a particular point in time. One can even compare a disk image to a photograph. The disk image is capable of being recreated (read data recovery) into the actual disk contents in the same way a photograph can be used to recreate a particular scene in a particular point of time in the past.

This way even if you lose your data, you can safely recreate the hard disk to the way it was with the help of the disk image, making data recovery a child's play. Disk image in fact, makes an exact copy of the partition tables and the file system. There is also something called the Ghost Image, in which even the nitty gritty of the operating system, the system settings and device drivers will also be incorporated into the image.

Thus after you do a data recovery with the help of a ghost image, you can actually boot up to a desktop and system configuration that is exactly the same as your crashed disk!