Oh, and it works with FAT, FAT32, NTFS and even ext2, the linux file system....
So I have drive images of ALL of my installed operating systems. Sometimes I even have multiple versions, where I explored one different avenue of configuration that I am not perhaps entirely sure about....
In combination with its sister application, partition magic, its possible to do some really wicked things....
Probably as a result of playing with this, you will want to have multiple hard drives if you do not have them. These tools made me move from 2 hard drives to my current of 5, because its just to useful being able to restore, clone and move things like that.... You are not longer commited to your original idea on a partitioning scheme.... So long as you have a repository for the images or have burning them to CD, you can do pretty much whatever you want provided you have a spare half and hour here and there to make some changes now and again....
like i said, today i decided i liked the idea of windows xp on disk 2 instead of disk 1. so i moved it. this kind of operation does on the whole require some additional configuration, such as the editing of files like
boot.ini
in windows, and
fstab and lilo.conf
in linux
but if you can get the hang of that, there is pretty much no limit to the kinds of crazy things you can do....
...and its possible that you might go an eternity NEVER HAVING TO INSTALL AN OS FROM SCRATCH AGAIN.....
....Now a days, I only have to do that when I actually decided to, even in the event of hard drive failure (to a degree).....
You are free. No more tediously reinstalling everything from scratch again, which is so monotonous and totally crap.