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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 928770" data-attributes="member: 32260">Disk imaging is a common backup technique in good backup software also for home users (like Paragon Backup&amp;Recovery free or Macrium Reflect).It is good for any home user to make such a backup after buying the computers (especially laptops). The full disk image can save factory partitions that can have non-default size and content. Usually, the disk image is created with all disk partitions and boot sectors. This can protect the user against some nasty ransomware and disk corruption. I have such backups (disk images) from many computers - some images are 20 years old. If I correctly remember the user can choose to skip free space to make the disk image smaller. This option and some others make the disk image slightly different from the original disk, but this difference is not important for home users.As you already noticed, the forensic software can make an exact copy of the disk, so one can recover deleted files, deleted partitions, and partially overwritten sectors to retrieve some useful data.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 928770, member: 32260"] Disk imaging is a common backup technique in good backup software also for home users (like Paragon Backup&Recovery free or Macrium Reflect). It is good for any home user to make such a backup after buying the computers (especially laptops). The full disk image can save factory partitions that can have non-default size and content. Usually, the disk image is created with all disk partitions and boot sectors. This can protect the user against some nasty ransomware and disk corruption. I have such backups (disk images) from many computers - some images are 20 years old. If I correctly remember the user can choose to skip free space to make the disk image smaller. This option and some others make the disk image slightly different from the original disk, but this difference is not important for home users. As you already noticed, the forensic software can make an exact copy of the disk, so one can recover deleted files, deleted partitions, and partially overwritten sectors to retrieve some useful data. [/QUOTE]

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