Tom Ehlert Software

Tom Ehlert Software is a German developer that has concentrated its entire product line on a single, highly focused mission: providing fast, dependable disk imaging through the utility simply named Snapshot. The program creates a compact, mountable file of every sector of a Windows drive while the system is still running, letting home offices, small businesses, and system administrators secure workstations, servers, or industrial PCs without shutting them down. Typical use cases include nightly automated backups to a NAS, cloning an old HDD to a faster SSD, duplicating a reference PC across a classroom, or rescuing files from a machine that will no longer boot. Snapshot writes to common formats such as VHD and raw IMG, supports incremental updates and differential images, encrypts archives with AES-256, and can be driven from the GUI, command line, or a WinPE recovery stick. Because the images are sector-exact, they double as forensic containers for legal audits and as quick-roll-back points before major Windows updates. The lightweight driver stays dormant except during backup, so performance impact is minimal even on production servers. Tom Ehlert Software’s Snapshot is available for free on get.nero.com, where the download is delivered through the trusted winget repository, always installs the newest release, and can be queued alongside other applications for unattended batch setup.