I'm aware of tools like Ghost Explorer. The last time I looked at Ghost (which 
has been a few years, admittedly) it copied used blocks on drive. AFAIK, that 
what most imaging programs do. ImageX reads the file system, not the raw disk 
blocks. 

...Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 9:44 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Open source 'ghost' product?
> 
> Most of the imaging products I listed are "file based" then, as most
> (or
> all) of them will let you access the image and add/remove files...
> 
> Ghost included. Modern versions of Ghost include this thing called
> "Ghost Explorer" that will let you open .gho files specifically for
> the
> purpose of manipulating the contents.
> 
> On 4/30/2010 11:16 AM, Tim Evans wrote:
> > Imagex generates a file based image rather than a block based image
> like ghost and the others do. You can mount an Imagex wim file and go
> in and easily add/remove/replace files.
> 
> --
> 
> Phil Brutsche
> p...@optimumdata.com
> 
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