Accessible image backup and restore program?

[Mitchell D. Lynn]

It's not an image per sey, but I have used Casper in Windows XP to clone
drives, and they do the clone while Windows is still running. And I have not
had any issues getting the cloned drives to boot without having to jump
through any hoops. 
 

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Nope, not on any Windows after ME as I've tried it.  Windows refuses to boot
from the restored backup.  You first have to clear a key in the registry.
Besides, that backs up everything, including empty space and doesn't allow
for incremental backups.  There is still the problem of getting speech to
restore the partition later.  I've seen this kind of solution proposed here
several times, but I guarantee you that it won't work.  Even worse, you
don't have a way of knowing that Windows didn't boot because no speech comes
up.  Also, it requires booting into Linux since you can't normally backup a
Windows partition in use.

On 5/26/2013 11:33 AM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> Jason: There is not an accessible windows boot cd as far as I'm aware.
> What you could do though is just dd your partitions and pipe t hat 
> through to bzip2. It's moderately slow, but you could store it on a 
> nas/passport drive/etc and be set. HTH,
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