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Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:18 pm**

Hello again,

After spending few hours installing Vista, SP1, drivers and tweaking i want to create an image of the entire HDD before installing apps.

I have a USB CD drive and a USB HDD, No docking station.

I have tried with Hiren's boot cd, (did'nt recognize USB HDD) Acronis, and Ghost, all did not recognize USB HDD.

Any ideas?

Tnx in advance.

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:58 pm**

What version of Vista have you got?

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:21 pm**

Shrink your main partition. Create a second partition. Format the second partition as FAT32. After you boot into Visat, copy that image from the machine's harddisk to the USB drive for storage.

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:48 pm**

smvp6459 wrote:Shrink your main partition. Create a second partition. Format the second partition as FAT32. After you boot into Visat, copy that image from the machine's harddisk to the USB drive for storage.

Fixed the problem, Thanks a lot.

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