CZ

>> While i agree Vista's complete PC Backup has its uses it isn't something
>> i
would rely on. From my experience of using it, it doesn't have any
compression options, so if you are imaging (or shadow copying) a drive of,
say 50GB, then you need 50GB available for the image. I haven't tried
imaging to DVDs but, again, from other conversations, i gather that the
'restore' process for DVDs has to go in reverse order. In other words if you
have disk 1 to 5, the you insert 5 first to get the restore going. Insert
disk 1 first and Vista complains.

There are far better third party imaging options available. As manu have
said, Acronis is one, Paragon is another, so is casper.

John:

I have been evaluating the Acronis True Image 10.0 backup product.
Very impressive product.

As a test, I did a backup and restore of Vista RTM, all from within Vista
RTM.
No problems.
Using the Normal compression setting:
Op system vol: 9.2 GB used
Compressed file size: 3.6GB