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"Anthony R. Gold" <not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:59:25 +0000, "Anthony R. Gold"
> <not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone advise on a product which does what I need (i.e total image
>> backup and restore of main bootable active XP partition to/from USB
>> external hard drives) with less fussiness about the hardware in use.
>
> Many thanks for the leads, but I've not found anything satisfactory yet.
>
> The problem with Image for Windows by BootItNG is that is would not image
> my main drive while running Windows - it made the complaint: "Unable to
> obtain a lock on drive C:" and would not proceed.
>
> I got further with Acronis True Image - the backup went fine but then the
> recovery loader I burnt to CD would not read my USB drive (which drive is
> visible to the computer's BIOS and shows up as a boot device possibility)
> and it also it complained about "Failed to read from the sector 0 of the
> hard disk 0" which a Google search finds to be is a very common complaint.
>
> Apart from some fussiness with certain USB drives, my present choice of
> Powerquest Drive Image 7.0 works well, but I'd dearly like to find
> something as capable but more tolerant of certain quirky USB drives.
>

So - did you try using the Imaging facility from BING? - from a BING boot???


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