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

[Steve Gonnella]

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 18:32:08 -0400, Bobby Gill <bobbygill at rogers.com>
wrote:

>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.
>
>Appreciate any suggestions, thanks!
>Bob

Acronis TrueImage isn't free but can be found cheap if you look
around. Someone (Newegg?) recently had it for $10-$12. Here it is for
about 20 bucks:
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=203294903&listingid=47871040

It will let you create/restore partitions and do incremental backups.
You can mount an image and browse it just like any drive or restore
individual files and it has a scheduler. The GUI is Windows only but
you can image any partition. I used it a while back to image a drive
with Windows, Linux and SunOS partitions to a new drive. It comes on
(or you can create) a bootable CD that runs a linux version for
restoring to bare metal. I swear by it.