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HD Guard Pro
Author: Matt Jason H
Published on: 13-02-2004
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Page Index
1. HD Guard Pro
2. Installation
3. Features / Performance
4. Conclusion

Introduction

A little bit about the HD Guard Pro

 

Along with the huge increase in speed and complexity of today's computers and the internet, protection against boot failures and malicious viruses is becoming all the more needed to safeguard valuable data, not to mention the nightmares of failed windows boot ups or CMOS errors.

 

In this world-exclusive review we're going to be taking a look at the HD Guard Pro from EksitData, a small PCI card, which promises that a PC restored from lost data, fatal windows crashes and/or CMOS errors or virus infection, is just a reboot away.

 

 

Unlike software solutions, the card doesn't create a huge image file of your hard-disk, effectively halving its capacity, but cleverly records just the changes to the data on the drive, using on average under 1.5MB per 12GB of data. It's also independent of Windows, so it can even recover your data and installation if your PC fails to boot.

 

This system is designed for applications where a many users have access to PCs, and may cause damage affecting other users in the process. Internet Cafe's and Educational establishments would find this sort of product ideal, as after each reboot the system could be restored to an original state - removing any tampering from the system.

 

Specification

The Specifications of the HD Guard Pro

 

The specifications (according to the manufacture) are as follows:

  • Supports IDE SATA and SCSI hard disks.
  • Supports PIO, DMA33, DMA66, Ultra DMA66, ATA-100, Ultra ATA-100 IDE, ATA-133 and S-ATA interfaces.
  • Supports FAT16/16E, FAT32/32E, NTFS/HPFS partitions and file systems.
  • Supports up to 256GB hard disks.
  • Supports Partition Magic and multi-OS booting by System Commander and multi-bootable-partition booting by Boot Magic.
  • CMOS/BIOS Protection.
  • Supports DOS, Windows 3x/95/98/ME, Windows NT/2000/XP.
  • Remote administration software included.

Included Items

What you get in the box

 

The HD Guard Pro comes in a modest box containing:

 

 

  • HD Guard Pro PCI Card (in anti-static bag)
  • Floppy Diskette containing manual and driver-and-utility software




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