[AndrewJ]

Gday All
After my recent bit of fun with a corrupted registry/dying hard disk, i have taken to making system images vs just backups.
W7 has an inbuilt drive imager so thats OK.
However, i have an old IDE based W2KPro system that does stuff my modern units cant, so i want to keep it going.
I have been looking at all sorts of disk imagers, but most ( other than clonezilla ) appears to require the drive to be mounted, and none of the apps run under W2k.
I have "manually" rebuilt a bootable "clone" W2k by
installing W2k from the boot disk ( to get a proper mbr partition),
wiping out all the files ( via the dos box in the repair utility ),
using Xcopy to copy ALL the data from the old disk to the new.
On rebooting, it detects the new HDD signature and resets itself to suit and all goes well.
However, what i would like to do is create an image.
I can attach the ide drives to my W7 box OK, but nothing ( free ) i can find allows me to make a true clone image of the attached disk.
I found stuff that clones one disk to another, but want something ( simple ) that can image an attached disk, and restore it later.
Any ideas????

Andrew
( still reading the clonezilla instructions )