HDD Hard Drive Protection - Automated Reboot to Restore software
Hard Drive Recovery Cards history
The hard drive recovery card was introduced over 20 years ago by many hdd recovery card manufacturers in Asia. The Recovery Card was designed to protect PC hard drives from inadvertant user changes as well as automating the maintenance of PC's. Essentially these recovery cards maintained a consistant PC configuration on every restart...
Initially, the primary difference between restore cards and recovery based software was, that on the recovery cards the software (firmware) is hard coded onto the actual card. In fact Drive Vaccine's birth originated as a hardware based recovery card. Many current hard drive recovery card manufacturers use the hardware card as a simple "dongle", as software piracy is still quite rampant in many developing countries.
How Hardware Based Recovery Cards and Software-based Drive Vaccine Work
Hardware Recovery cards were designed to protect PC's by write protecting the hard drive at the physical sector level, similar to the way that you write protect floppy disks by setting the write protect tab.
When an application needs to write to the hard drive, HDD restore cards would automatically redirect its file writes to a separate non-write protected area on the hard drive. All attempted changes to the hard drive are recorded in the hidden storage area. Changed data is read from this specific storage area only, instead of the actual hard drive... This gives the user the impression that the changes had been made on the actual hard drive. In reality, the next time the PC is rebooted, all changes are discarded.
This method allows full protection of your computer files while still offering complete access to your system. In essence you entire hard drive become "READ ONLY".
In addition to explicitly protected partitions, most restore cards - protect any non-file system areas (such as the partition map) on any disk drive that contains protected partitions. Drive Vaccine will also refuse a request to do a low-level format on any disk drive that contains protected volumes.
Introducing Drive Vaccine - Software based Hard Drive Protection
Drive Vaccine delivers Automated computer maintenance and restoration - Ideal for PAC's (Public Access Computer environments), classrooms and internet kiosks...
Drive Vaccine's protection is invisible; users feel as though they have absolute control of the 
With Drive Vaccine you can:
Access Control
Drive Vaccine provides password protection and access control for administrators and teachers. By password protecting a Drive Vaccine protected PC - users can not access the Drive Vaccine application console or modify any restoration settings.
Accomodate Windows OS And Anti-Virus Updates
Drive Vaccine can be configured to easily accommodate Windows OS and Anti-virus updates. No complex batch files, scripting, or scheduling PC downtimes. Drive Vaccine simplifies the process of maintaining updated security patches and virus definitions.
Network Management Control 
Drive Vaccine meets the needs of today's network environment. All Drive Vaccine products include a Network Controller Console. The GUI based Network Controller provides a central location for controlling, monitoring and managing workstations across the enterprise.
Simple to use: Just Reboot or Log-off and Restore
One of the most troublesome and recurring tasks for an IT technician is to restore a PC back to a pristine working condition, quickly and easily... Prior to the concept of Drive Vaccine, many administrators of public access workstations were faced with the daunting task of formatting hard drives and reinstalling the OS and software, everytime a PC became inoperable - A time consuming and expensive task for fixing everyday "micro-disasters".
Drive Vaccine PC Restore Plus integrates Reboot-and-Restore, a simple technology designed to keep computers fully functional and optimally configured. In addition to restoring on reboot, Drive Vaccine PC Restore Plus can Restore on User Log-Off and can also maintain a safe "Freeze Space" for file and data storage.
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Drive Vaccines PC Restore on Reboot or Log-off drastically reduces computer maintenance, and is widely used to protect public access computers, (ie. library public computers, school PC Labs, etc) or shared computing environments where a workstation could be misused or damaged either intentionally by a malicious user or accidentally by a learning student.
Keep PC's Virus and Spyware free
Viruses and spy ware are the most common threats, and new infections slip through the first lines of defense almost daily. In addition, users can also cause unknowing damage by tampering with configuration settings, by installing botched software - damaging the original configuration to a point of no return.
Set Acceptable User Policies
Put in force AUP's by guaranteeing that only approved applications are installed. When protected, Drive Vaccine will not allow configuration changes or installation of any applications to remain on the workstations. This, in effect, blocks the installation of most illegal or unauthorized software.
Enhance The Computing Experience
Drive Vaccine ensures workstation performance is at optimal levels by removing website cookies, spyware, temp files viruses and unnecessary plug-ins; which cause system bottlenecks. Any infections to a "immunized" system are instantly eradicated - workstations are reverted back to their original configuration on every restart or user log-off. Because Drive Vaccine does not restrict access and is transparent to users - Users feel as though they have complete control of the machine; enhancing the end user's computing experience.
Freeze Space - Persistent Storage Space
Administrators, can create a "Freeze space" - a folder space in order to save files for permanent storage. This enables computer users to save files and folders for permanent storage, keeping them exempt from the restoration process. This integrated Freeze Space (virtual-drive) has also been implemented in our latest release of Drive Vaccine PC Restore Plus edition.
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