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WHETHER you’re an experienced PC user or a novice, PowerQuest’s award-winning programs give you the tools to manage your hard- drive like an old pro.

Attend the next Danbury Area Computer Society general meeting on May 2, 2000, and learn from PowerQuest Corporation all about organizing and protecting your hard drive as well as discovering one of the most powerful and easiest operating systems to install—OpenLinux 2.3 from Caldera Systems.

As an organization tool, PartitionMagic V.5 is unique. With it you can create, resize, merge, and convert partitions without destroying data! The program is exceptionally easy to use, with wizard functionality that makes partitioning tasks effortless. You can quickly convert from NTFS to FAT/FAT32 or from primary to logical and logical to primary. PM includes BootMagic for safe, effortless switching between multiple operating systems, such as Caldera Systems OpenLinux 2.3.

Once you have set up your computer, it’s time to create a backup copy with Drive Image V2. Drive Image allows you to create a compressed image file of your hard drive and conveniently store it to another hard drive or removable media. Drive Image supports Zip, Jaz, and most other removable media. Then, if your hard drive needs to be restored or upgraded, simple pop in the image file and, presto, it’s back to its original state.

PowerQuest’s Datakeeper 3.0 is the backup solution for Windows 95/98 that continuously backs up system files and data with no user intervention. Once Datakeeper 3.0 is configured, you don’t even have to think about it; your data is automatically backed up.

Want to Undo System Changes? Now you can with SecondChance. Whether caused by a virus, a software incompatibility, or an unintentional operator error, the result is still the same. Your system does not work like it did yesterday. With SecondChance, you can return your system back to the way it worked before.

Finally, a data-recovery solution—Lost & Found V1.01 from PowerQuest. Rather than spending thousands of dollars to send your hard drive to a data-recovery center, Lost & Found lets you automatically recover and restore data after accidental (or even intentional) data loss, or from corrupted media caused by a disk crash or logical system failure.

DACS meetings take place the first Tuesday of each month at the Danbury Hospital Auditorium. The main presentation begins at 7 p.m. Gene Barlow will be the guest presenter. As time permits, Gene will demonstrate many of these exciting products and answer your questions as well. Special user group prices on all of these products will be available for you to purchase product at the meeting and take it home with you. Gene will bring handouts and exciting door prizes as well. For more information about the May general meeting and SIG meetings that take place throughout the month, please check the DACS Website at http://www.dacs.org.