Acronis True Image is a powerful disk imaging software that creates backups and recovers PC systems.Unfortunately this software is not free.However Acronis has an agreement with Seagate and Western Digital and provides a re-branded version of Acronis True Image completely free.

Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 can be directly booted from the hard disk without any secondary media.This is done by making an partition in the hard disk to appear as a USB drive to the Kaspersky Rescue Disk.

Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 Bootable USB Creator prepares your USB Drive to boot Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10.This is a simple batch file which automates the steps given under the section Writing Kaspersky Rescue Disk to a removable drive in the help.chm file located in rescue\help\English folder in the Kaspersky Rescue disk 10.

After almost 2 years Kaspersky has released the next version of their Rescue Disk : Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 .This version of the rescue disk comes with a Web Browser – Shiretoko and a Network Configurer.

ImDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008. It can create virtual hard disk, floppy or CD/DVD drives using image files or system memory.