If it's a Seagate drive you can use their free Disc Wizard software. It's basically just a cut down version of Acronis so it works quite well. You can take a whole image from within windows or by booting off a usb etc.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=DiscWizard&vgnextoid=d9fd4a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, 5 February 2010 4:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home PC imaging I need to rebuild my wife's PC this weekend, as she has managed to get the Antivirus Live malware. I've cleaned it probably half a dozen times, and it keeps coming back, so there's obviously something hidden somewhere that Malwarebytes isn't finding. I'd like to image her PC afterwards, so that if/when I rebuild it again, it won't take me all day. I know open source imaging stuff has been discussed here before, but what would you guys recommend that I use for this simple task? Thanks in advance, Joe ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~