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Hi,

I want to be able to create a selective image of my C:\ drive that will enable me to restore it to it's previous state when I have a problem that can't be solved using System Restore on XP.

Now, I don't want to create a full backup as I have documents, pictures, software installers etc backup elsewhere...

A full backup image would be 136 GB, including everything on my c: drive and I only have 30 GB of space on my external drive.

If I do a selective backup including Windows, Program Files, and not including my C:\Documents and Settings folder (which includes videos and pictures etc) will I be able to use that as a recovery image?

Will it still boot up successfully after a Restore?

thanks for any help or advice
Philip

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In order for you to achieve a bootable replacement, the very least would be you entire system partition and the best choice would be to image the entire disk. While TrueImage offers a "system state" backup, that will not create a bootable disk but it "might"(?) restore enough of your files if your system disk is slightly messed up. An image archive will be about 65% of your used space.

Time to by a larger drive for backup use. Look at item 7G inside my signature index below.
Good luck.