SOS- is a self-contained disaster recovery solution for PCs. The disk imaging software quickly performs a "physical disk" image backup of any hard drive or partition directly to CD-R/CD-RW, hard disk, remote server, security server. removable drives, or tape drive. SOS XP can now write the backup image to a file,CD,DVD or on a local (larger) disk leaving the remaining space unused. SOS comes with advanced features for software compression, data comparison and recovery.Backups created with SOS recover your system after a hard drive crash or similar failure where your data is lost. Fully restore your system without installing any of the original software or operating system! Just boot up from the SOS Boot CD begin the recovery process from your previous image, and Presto! Everything is back exactly like you like it!