I am using: 1) Acronis True Image Echo Workstation 9.5.0.8115 with the Universal Restore add-on, and 2) Vista CompletePC Backup. True Image is fabulous and it has never failed me. This version allows "bare metal" restores (restore the image to ANY PC regardless of hardware). I've used True Image Home, all versions up to v. 11 and had no problems with corrupt image files, etc., which some experience. The CompletePC Backup that comes with Vista Ultimate has also worked flawlessly (both creating images and restoring images). It too allegedly can do "bare metal" restores.

Another backup application I would highly recommend is "ShadowProtect". It also has the ability to do "bare metal" restores and is about $10 cheaper than True Image Home which cannot do "bare metal" restores. I used that for several months and it was very nice although it couldn't restore an image on my system due to some "glitch", which according to Tech Support was because I was trying to restore the image on a dual-boot machine. They have since corrected this issue in the latest release.

Jeff
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