What is good software to take a copy of your PC so you can rollback at a later stage?

I want to be able to load and test software on my PC but if I cock-it up I want to be able to roll-back to before I started. Do you know what software there is to do this?What is good software to take a copy of your PC so you can rollback at a later stage?Windows System Restore

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Norton Ghost

Acronis TrueImage

HDCloneWhat is good software to take a copy of your PC so you can rollback at a later stage?norton ghost or acronis trueimage



or, free

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-fre鈥?/a> What is good software to take a copy of your PC so you can rollback at a later stage?You could use virtualisation such as VMware

http://www.vmware.com/



a free alternative is Virtualbox

http://www.virtualbox.org/



Virtualisation is great for running entire operating systems such as XP within Vista or Linux within XP etc; if your aim is to test an application, using a sandbox such as Sandboxie is very easy; once installed, you can right click any programme or installation file and select "run sandboxed". Once done, you just delete the sandbox.

Free here

http://www.sandboxie.com/



returnil is an alternative (can roll back entire operating system by undoing changes) - free

http://www.returnilvirtualsystem.com/ind鈥?/a>





If you want to backup your entire hard drive, including operating system and applications, data and settings as it is currently and restore these settings in the future, use disk imaging software as described above; my recommendation would be Acronis which is excellent and reliable. But freeware exists; you can backup your system to an external drive and create a bootable cd/dvd in order to restore that backup should your system fail.



Macrium Reflect Free

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

Paragon Drive express

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-鈥?/a>What is good software to take a copy of your PC so you can rollback at a later stage?
Norton GoBack is good but can be resource intensive and if it has to rescan your Hard Drive can take a couple of hours. This can happen due to intensive disk activity.