Aelita ERDisk Improves Flexibility and Control of Emergency Repair Disk Creation.

COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 1999--

Emergency Protection and Recovery Tool Enhances Backup and

Recovery for Multi-domain Windows NT and 2000 Networks

Aelita Software announced today a new release of ERDisk, its best-selling intelligent emergency protection and recovery tool for Windows NT and 2000 networks. ERDisk provides automated, remote emergency repair disk creation and fast, intelligent recovery from problems resulting from changes in systems and network configuration.

ERDisk 4.0 represents a major upgrade of Aelita's ERDisk, featuring increased scalability and performance, full support for Windows 2000, an expanded range of recovery options, and a new Emergency Repair Console.

ERDisk 4.0 creates and updates emergency repair disks for multiple Windows servers and workstations simultaneously, and easily scales to serve additional systems. The Computer Collection feature allows servers and workstations to be grouped by type, location or other criteria, making it easy to organize thousands of computers into groups with different ERD creation and scheduling settings.

Unlike the rdisk command in Windows NT, ERDisk allows a complete set of emergency repair disks for a multi-domain network to be built and maintained from a central location. It also permits the emergency repair disk to be stored on a secure hard drive or written to CD-R, rather than on a single floppy disk, which limits emergency repair disk capacity to 1.44MB.

ERDisk 4.0 does not use the Windows NT Native Repair Disk utility, which is not available in Windows 2000, so it is equally valuable for Windows NT networks, Windows 2000 networks, and networks migrating from Windows NT to Windows 2000.

"Keeping a current emergency repair disk is an important part of any network backup plan," Ratmir Timashev, president of Aelita Software said. "It will become even more important as administrators begin the process of migrating to Windows 2000."

The Emergency Repair Console on ERDisk 4.0 permits the recovery of a computer with corrupted registry or system files on both Windows NT and 2000 systems. Where Windows NT restricts the range of actions that can be performed during repair, the Emergency Repair Console's command-line interface provides full access to all volumes mounted during boot up.

ERDisk 4.0 also provides the following enhanced features and capabilities:

Remote Restore

ERDisk 4.0 provides safe, quick and granular repair of specific registry hives on remote computers over LAN/WAN connection.

Increased Control of Creation and Restore

ERDisk permits an entire registry to be backed up to multiple floppies or a CD-R disk. Using ERDisk administrators can restore a failed Windows NT 4.0 installation on an NTFS partition with full access to the drive and a complete set of repair info files on a CD or multiple floppies.

Improved Scheduling

ERDisk's Schedule Wizard allows emergency repair disks to be created automatically at specified times.

Explorer-Like Interface

The new ERDisk interface provides for easy access to readiness statistics and drag-and-drop creation of Computer Collections through an Explorer-like interface.

Complete Repair Inventory

ERDisk 4.0 maintains a comprehensive internal logging database, including a complete, easily accessible repository of all information on ERDisk activities.

"It is much easier to recover from problems caused by configuration changes using emergency repair disk, rather than the full network backup," said Andrei Baronov, Aelita's Chief Technology Officer. "ERDisk's automated, full-featured emergency protection and recovery should be part of the backup strategy for every Windows network."

About Aelita Software

Aelita Software provides a comprehensive set of enterprise network management tools that deliver improved control, usability, and security. Focusing on the Microsoft platform, Aelita has fully developed solutions for domain migration, directory management, security analysis, systems monitoring, and configuration recovery. The company also provides consulting and software development services for Microsoft enterprise networks. Aelita Software is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio and can be reached at [phone]. The company is on the World Wide Web at www.aelita.com.