OS Image - will this work?

[sivart]

did you just create another ID after getting banned with the last one? Bye, bye.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Pity about all of the noise in this thread. Anyways.. I use a bootable USB drive with a copy of Ghost 2003 on it. The updated build 793 that natively handles SATA HDs. Works well, at least with XP. I haven't tried it with Windows 7 yet. Still uncertain about how it handles the seperate small boot partition that Win7 likes to create.

I don't know if it handles USB external drives, without a device driver, or BIOS-level disk support for external USB HDs.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Lol at this thread. I'm sure it wasn't meant that way. I think this new member, "Pizza needs enema", needs a perma ban. Shame though, he seems kind of witty and thoughtful.

 

[C1]

Thanks guys, TI10's Clone application works super. Real fast. I really like the manual mode. I would have liked the capability to be able to omit a partition in the destination drive layout, but then I guess it wouldnt be a clone then would it?

 

[Cattykit]

What's wrong with peasant??????

Anyway, the best solution is to use VHD.
Programs like Ghost or Trueimage had great merits but in the era of VHD, those are just obsolete.

With VHD, you can not only backup your OS but also boot from it on the fly. Even better, you can make one master-parent VHD then any changes you make since then can be saved as a very small child VHD (called differcing VHD).
Also, there's no added cost of using VHD because it's part of Windows.