heeeeellllllllllooooo........
came across this hard drive imaging program the other day that works absolutely orsm......
you install it create a backup in a secure section of your HDD (the program does this)....it then installs active recovery which is when the computer gets past bios you hit F11 and it loads the recovery app (just like all the major oem builders e.g. dell, HP) it also has an snapshot restorer which i tried today.....i like it....lol.
you go into the recovery agent hit snapshot and it takes around 20 seconds depending on your system and it starts to boot windows.now for the fun part.The windows boot logo stays up for about 2 minutes just long enough to load all the major windows components and then allows you into your desktop.You can then start working while the rest of the info is restored...........orsm
there are versions for windows server, linux and supports full image backups to incremental.
there is even a free trial wink wink......
or if you really want you'll know where to get it....hehehehehehe
http://www.acronis.com
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