Yes that is an excellent solution and I use it all the time. I was just trying to give another option for people but cor recovery works great and it is a complete talking environment and the creater is very reseptive to user feedback. He is also the creator of Winstaller. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Katherine Moss Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 11:27 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] imaging windows 8 Think about Core Recovery; that's what it's for. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 11:23 AM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] imaging windows 8 Hello, I've got a couple of windows 8 boxes I'd like to image. I'm wanting to do a complete image, not just the data, and use it in the future in case of drive hardware failure. My goal take the image, probably from outside of windows itself from talking media? then in the event of hardware failure, buy a new drive, put it in, restore the image, and give the box back to it's owner and go on with things. In the really old days I used to use Ghost from floppy disk and have it run from batch file. I've tried image for windows from a win7PE boot environment and although that worked in creating the image, even put it where I wanted it, it wouldn't boot on restore. Is there a trick to imaging nowadays? Recommendations? Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins