[mythtv-users] OT: Making image of Windows install for backup?

Johnny jarpublic at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 22:45:47 UTC 2009


> Being a very scarce user of Windows I am wondering if I can get a
> recommendation for software to make a disk image of a Windows partition for
> a friend, it is his laptop with XP. He has an external hard drive he pops on
> via USB, and with his even more limited knowledge he needs something that
> will work on a regular schedule.

The two most popular choices I know of are DriveImageXML and Macrium
Reflect. You can google around and see what you think. You will also
want to make sure the Windows has volume shadow copy service enabled
or there will probably be problems with open files.


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