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To: ILCUL8R who wrote (47431)	8/23/2005 8:56:07 PM
From: thecow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110626

I use Acronis TrueImage. If your drive crashes you boot from a cd that you made when first setting up the program. I store my images on another internal hard drive along with all my personal files but you could store them on any media large enough to fit. Takes about 15 unattended minutes to restore an image. It's saved me lots of time and headaches. I make an incremental backup about once a week so the worst (barring a complete disaster) that can happen is reloading any programs or tweaks I have made after the last image.

To: ILCUL8R who wrote (47431)	8/23/2005 10:20:26 PM
From: Esteban	Respond to of 110626

I do pretty much the same as tc. I used to use a network drive to store the image on, but now I use a second internal drive. If your boot drive is physically okay, you just restore the image to it through the program, which can be run in Dos. Otherwise you restore it to a new drive or partition. I have a bootable rescue cd I made that works fine for this purpose. The images I've restored so far have not been due to drive failure, so I've just started the Drive Image program right in Windows.