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General Imaging Abilities
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The core functionality and imaging abilities of each product are listed here.

	Symantec Ghost Enterprise 7.0	Altiris Express 5	StorageSoft ImageCast 4.2	PowerQuest Drive Image Pro 4
Internally clone a disk to another disk	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Internally clone partition to partition	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Clone a disk directly to multiple machines	No	Yes	No	No
Create and restore an image of a partition or partitions	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Selectively restore a partition from a multi-partition image	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Selectively restore individual files from an image	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
On-the-fly partition creation and resizing (see file system support)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Stand-alone partition creation and resizing	Partitioning	No	No	Yes
Disk integrity checking of target drive	Yes	No	No	Yes
Image file verification	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Ability to schedule imaging tasks	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Large disk support (> 1023 cyl.)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Large image file support (> 2047 MB)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
PXE Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
SCSI drive support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Compression Levels	9	4	9	3
Compression Method	Zlib	STAC/HiFn, ZIP	STAC/HiFn	?
Image file encryption	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ability to include comments with image file	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spanning of images across multiple media	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SCSI Tape support	Yes	No	No	No
Multiple images on one tape	Yes	No	No	No
Image directly to CD-R	Yes	No	No	Yes

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