ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM is a menu driven DOS program designed to help you solve a wide range of hard disk related problems.

Mass data loss, a situation where access to an entire disk or partition is lost, is often caused by damage to meta structures such as the MBR, Partition Tables, LDM, or the Boot Sector of an individual partition. By repairing those structures with ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM, data can be made accessible again.

Another common cause for data loss is unreadable sectors, a bane to both the forensic and data recovery communities; while a few read errors may only have minor consequences and only prevent access to one or more files, large blocks of unreadable sectors can prevent access to individual volumes or even entire disks. In that case you can use ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM to clone a hard disk (even when conventional cloning tools fail due to bad sectors or file system errors), scan the disk surface for read- and write errors and possibly fix bad sectors.

ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM allows you to edit (patch) your disk using the built-in disk editor, partition table editor and boot sector editor. It also offers basic partition management (hide, unhide, set active) features.

You can 'be prepared' for data loss by using ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM and it's unique proprietary backup system to create on-disk backups of partition structures such as: the MBR, the EPBRs, boot sectors, even the windows 2000/2003/XP LDM. Once a backup exists, damage to any of the previously mentioned disk structures can be easily fixed by restoring the backup.

ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM key advantages:

• ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM is easy to use: the (automatic) recovery and repair procedure is simple and straightforward, and generally consists of a number of easy to follow steps. Partition tables and boot sectors can be automatically rebuilt by following these steps.

• ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM is safe to use: you can undo the changes that were made to the disk during the repair procedure. If the repair was unsuccessful or had undesired results, changes made by the program can be 'rolled back'.

• ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM is quick: if the damaged disk structures can be repaired, the ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM repair procedure is much faster than recovering the files using a file-recovery tool.

• ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM is reliable: ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM has already helped thousands of users recover countless gigabytes of data.

ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM Feature summary:

• MBR Repair (boot code & partition tables)
• Partition Table Repair; unlike other tools, ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM can restore access to logical partitions
• Automatic Boot Sector Repair (FAT, FAT32, NTFS)
• MBR, Partition Table & LDM Backup
• Disk Editor (RAW hex, ASCII, Partition Table, Boot Sector)
• Basic Partition Table Management; Set Active Partition, Partition hiding/un-hiding
• Undo feature for all automatic repairs and diskeditor actions
• Surface Scan; read-only and non destructive read/write
• Disk Cloning, even when logical damage or bad sectors exist
• Post-clone disk compare
• Forensic mode
• Low Level Format (enforce sector re-mapping for bad sectors)
• Disk wiping (standard, pattern or DOD)
• State File; once a disk has been scanned (using the demo-version) the scan can be skipped the next time
• Extensive and informative logging
• Boot Media Builder; from Windows you can easily create a bootable diskette or CDrom that starts ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM

ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM system requirements:

• ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM only operates on hard disks that can be accessed using the extended int13h interface - these would include IDE, (x)ATA(x) and SCSI disks. ByteBack D.R.I.S.^TM can also operate on hardware RAID arrays.
• Operating System: any MS-DOS compatible DOS version. Freedos is included in the distribution [*].
• 1.44 Mb floppy drive or CD-Rom (boot capability)
• 80386 (compatible) or higher CPU