GameDrive Prevents Damage to CDs

“We have a family of people that really like their games. Unfortunately, several are under the age of 12. Needless to say, they are really hard on my discs.

“They have scratched, broken, lost, and damaged them in so many ways. This is from them getting bored with one game and wanting to play several different ones in a row, and changing them out from the CD drive.

“But since buying GameDrive for my computer, my game CDs really seem to last a lot longer and run a lot smoother for the adults in the house.

"This has been the best software purchase I have made in a very long time. It is well worth the money I've paid and I recommend it to other gamers I talk to. Thank you for such a great product.”

GameDrive Made Him a “Hero Dad”

“I am the father of seven children ages 12, 10, 8, 6, 4 and two 2 year olds! They are button pushers, keyboard slammers, and they walk around with CDs on their fingers. For years I’ve had to live with the knowledge that I may never get to play some of the games I have purchased. I find them used as coasters, jammed into the CD-ROM tray, and stacked playfully as a game on the floor. I once found three CDs jammed into one CD-ROM unit at the same time... they did not live through the extraction process.

“GameDrive has made me a ‘hero Dad!’ My daughters praise me because they have game icons they click and the game just WORKS! I am praising FarStone for enabling me to move my CDs into an archival software album. They don’t see the light of day anymore and my investments are safe.”

GameDrive Helps His Disabled Daughter

“We have a handicapped daughter who I have had on the computer since she was about eight years old (she is 21 now). The computer has been a learning tool for her and for many years she played, as best she could, DOS games. DOS games were easy to deal with because they stayed on the computer. With the arrival of Windows, CD-ROMs and games that were on CD only, we had a problem.

“Games on CDs were easily scratched by a person with her abilities and we went through a session of ruined CD games because of her inability to take care of them. I took to copying the games to other CDs and keeping the originals. But copies scratch even faster, and I got tired of copying CDs and having to take time every evening to deal with non-working CDs.

“Enter GameDrive. I bought it and installed it. The interface was easy to use. I now have 15 of her CDs mounted on drive letters ‘E’ through ‘S’ and icons on the screen for each game. If I want to change out a game, I simply eject it from a virtual drive and load the new one, and put the icon on the screen. No more ruined CDs! They are not even in her room and they work every time so that I do not have to make her games work each night. We love her but fixing scratched CDs was getting old fast. No more — GameDrive took care of that.

GameDrive Rocks at LAN Parties

“The program is simple. You insert the play disc into the CD-ROM drive, run GameDrive, and then use the friendly interface to create a VCD image of the disc. Presto! The key disc is now on your hard drive. You’ll enjoy the increased speed your games run at, since hard drives offer much faster seek and access times compared to optical drives. GameDrive lets you store up to 23 virtual game-disc images, and you can run them simultaneously, although I don’t know anyone capable of (or who desires) playing both Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 at the same time.

“GameDrive is not limited to games. You can utilize GameDrive for non-gaming applications as well, and you can share your VCDs with others via the Internet.

“So the next time I’m hosting a LAN party at the Cave and someone wants to use my Joint Ops CD to run their game, I’ll kindly give them my CD, then direct them to farstone.com for good measure. You should do the same.”

He Stopped Playing Games until He Found GameDrive

“I am a very satisfied customer of GameDrive because it’s just brilliant! You can play all your games straight from the hard drive without worrying about scratching your CDs or having to change them every time you want to play. All my games play much faster because they run from the hard drive and FarStone’s RapidCache ensures that games run smoothly. It works right out of the box and is very easy to use.

“I stopped playing games until I found this program because I just got tired of swapping and changing CDs and of the slow frame-rate. Now with GameDrive I spend hours with games and I enjoy myself more than ever.

“The price is unbeatable for a top class program. Gamers shouldn’t be without this software.”

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Data Backup & Recovery DriveClone 3.5 Pro

I have found nothing additional that is needed in the product and it is very intuitive

"Just wanted to say awesome product, I had Restore IT for XP and missed it greatly when Vista came out but now I am loving Drive Clone 3 Pro so thanks...I have found nothing additional that is needed in the product and it is very intuitive."

I Returned My Ghost 10 from Symantec

“I would like to take sometime out of my busy schedule to thank you for one of the best products out. I have purchased three of your products but RestoreIT is up there on the top 10. I returned my Ghost 10 from Symantec for this. I like the fact it can restore SAT drives using RAID. Once again my hat is off to your tech people who wrote the code. Please thank them for me.”

RestoreIT 7 Far Exceeds the Competition

“I received your email and thanks in regard to the best program that your company has for our computer needs. I have downloaded the trial version of Restore IT 7 Version and it works great. I have purchased the full version and paid for the program via a credit card on-line. I called your Tech Support Department and they were very professional and we are very pleased with the program. In my estimation, RestoreIT 7 and your other back-up programs far exceed the competition. I tried several other programs from some competitors companies and be honest they were bungled and very difficult to understand. I have a college degree in computers and accounting and to say the least, the other programs that companies have for a back-up utility and programs just do not compare with the superior programs that FarStone has. Congratulations for a very professional and well-engineered software program.”

RestoreIT Undoes a Bad Software Installation

“This is a note of praise and gratitude for producing such a fantastic product. In truth, I have never written a letter such as this (I am not easily impressed), but your software just saved me so many hours of grief and aggravation that I am ecstatic. RestoreIT was one of the few software inclusions when I bought my system. To be honest I never really gave it much thought and had no clue as to its powerful capabilities.

“This evening, I installed an update to my dental practice management software. I have about 800 megabytes of data alone — a substantial amount. The update turned out to be flawed and in minutes my entire directory had been overwritten, wiping out all my data and replacing it with default files. I was looking at having to uninstall the update, re-install the old CD, and then obtain a download of my most recent backup from my off-site service.

“Just before I threw in the towel, I tried the restore function for the first time on RestoreIT. I was amazed! Within just a few minutes, EVERYTHING was back to its original place and WORKING. I cannot thank you enough! I will most certainly be recommending this software to all my colleagues.”

RestoreIT Saves a Professional Videographer from Disaster

“As a professional videographer, I have two PC-based video editing suites that are my life blood. The system hard drive on one of my systems was completely full, so I had to replace it with a larger capacity drive. The upgrade was carried out by a local techie, who copied my data files from the old drive to the new one, but did not install RestoreIT. Within two months the new drive crashed with absolutely no way of recovering the data.

“Fortunately (or so I thought), I still had the old system drive to fall back on. When I installed this drive, to my horror I started getting Page File Size errors. I had a whole library of royalty free music and video stock footage files that would have been lost. The thought of having to completely rebuild my system drive and reinstall all the hardware drivers that were needed completely freaked me out. I had an urgent project for a major client that I had to produce.

“Anyway, FarStone came to the rescue: I remembered that I had RestoreIT on my old drive, so I just clicked to restore to the most recent backup point and sure enough the drive came right back up. I now had a working (but full) system drive. My next challenge was to transfer everything on my only system drive to a new larger capacity drive, and again FarStone came to the rescue with DriveClone. Within a couple of hours, I had a new working system drive that was an exact clone of my old drive.

“I was able to get my system back up and running on my own, and got my major client urgent project finished on time and ready for them to collect the next day.

“None of this would have happened without the FarStone suite of products. It really was a potential disaster that without FarStone would have taken weeks and thousands of dollars to recover, not to mention the lost revenue while my system got repaired — and the possibility of losing a major client. You saved my systems, and from now on every PC I use will have RestoreIT installed. You guys have a great product.”

RestoreIT Saved His Files and Maybe Even His Job

“I live in Cyprus, and FarStone’s RestoreIT was pre-installed on a computer I purchased. Until today, I didn’t realize what it does.

“I’m a digital video editor. Just after I downloaded some evaluation software, my computer crashed. The only time I’ve felt worse was when I lost the science championship in high school!

“As I rebooted my computer, I saw the message from RestoreIT: ’press spacebar to restore.’ I wasn’t sure the program would work, but I’m writing to you now to tell you that everything is perfect! Amazing! I’m so glad I had RestoreIT on my computer, and I thank you so much for saving my files and maybe even my job! I love you guys!”

So Simple Even the Cat Can Restore Her PC

“This month, after downloading an application update, I had to restart my computer. During the reboot my heart hit the floor, because I hadn’t burned off a copy of our Christmas pictures and an error message appeared: ’Cannot load operating system.’ OH NO! I couldn’t believe this was happening.

“Unfortunately, I didn’t know how to do the restore. RestoreIT came with my new system but I never paid any attention to it. Now I really needed a backup of my total system. The loss of the pictures was unfortunate, but four days of reloading applications and downloading updates was time I couldn’t afford.

“I contacted a technician to set up my system again. He suspected a virus or a hard drive failure. A virus? I have all the good stuff: spyware blocker, a firewall and antivirus software, and a popup blocker too. How could this happen? “Before I turned my system over to him, I wanted to try to salvage my pictures. I reversed my master/slave setting for my two hard drives and loaded my operating system. I copied my picture files to the now designated master drive. At this time, I reversed the drives again so that I could format and reinstall my software.

“As the system rebooted, my new kitten who loves to walk on my keyboard and desk to play with the cursor, jumped from my lap to the keyboard drawer and briefly stood on the space bar.... As if by magic my system booted and loaded the operating system, which worked like always.

“I couldn’t believe a program could be so simple that even a kitten could restore my PC!”

“Virtual Class has made teaching easier”

Virtual Class has received positive feedback from students and teachers in Aurora, Illinois. The East Aurora School District #131, with its two elementary schools, three middle schools, one senior high school, and two alternative schools, has implemented Virtual Class in all 26 of its computer labs.

“Virtual Class has made teaching easier with the help of a few keys. The ability to broadcast to the students what I am doing on my computer has greatly improved the teaching process. By having the ability to monitor my students on their computers, I am confident that they are doing their school work. The students like the fact that they can see the actual demonstration on their monitors.”

“I am very pleased with Virtual Class in our lab”

“I am very pleased with Virtual Class in our lab. We have found that it is much easier for young students to follow instructions when you can broadcast them right to their computers, and they stay focused on the task at hand, since it is right in front of them.”