Windows 7 Backup and Drive/Image mounting help

I’ve seen the Todo, and it seems decent if a freeware option is
needed.. but from the FAQ:  A: No, EASEUS Todo Backup doesn’t support
incremental backup or schedule backup.  This might be a deal breaker
for some.

Also, you mentioned that Win 7 will only image your C:\ if there is an
attached to a USB, but thats not correct. It does image to any local
hdd, including internal hdds, and even other partitions on the main
harddrive. The deal is:

a)  your other partitions or hdds cant be marked as ’system drives’..
ie: your computer has stored the boot information on that disk.

If you go to command prompt (run as administrator) and type bcdedit,
it’ll probably say under boot manager that the partition is E:
In disk manager, make sure that c: is marked as active, then in an
administrator prompt type
bcdboot c:\windows /s c:
this will move the boot files to the c drive. then reboot and the
other drive should no longer show as a system drive. more in depth
overview:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SwitchingMyWindows7BootDiskFromDToCWithBCDBootRatherThanBCDEdit.aspx

b)  some application/game installed a system service on the partition
you would like to save your image too, and therefore, Windows will not
let you use that partition as a destination. To fix this, find out
what’s installed on that partition, uninstall it, and re-install it on
your C:\

c)  also, make sure you aren’t storing your pagefile.sys on the
destination partition.

Much of that info above was taken from:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/thread/b8e726fc-9f95-4416-9212-7e24b01a111c

I HAVE imaged my Win7 to internal drives (non USB). When I had a dual
booting machine, my E:\ would not show up as a destination, but I had
to switch the bootloader from e:\ to my c:\ and make sure C:\ was
active, and e:\ was no longer flagged as a System Drive in the Disk
Manager.

I haven’t tested network yet, but the help file says that it should
backup/image to a network drive as well without problems.  I shall try
this later.

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On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Kyle Hanson (Mobile Computer Wizard)
< kyle@mobilecomputerwizard.com> wrote:
> I’ll take a crack at it this weekend!
>
> Kurt Rein < kurt@mobilecomputerwizard.com> wrote:
>
>>Free tool…  sounds great.  Anyone used it.  Kyle, it’s the one I was
>>talking about.
>>
>>I’m trying to figure out if it only goes to discs…. or if it goes to
>>networked drives too.  FYI all, I learned that Win7 Pro DOES backup to a
>>netowrk drive, but does NOT do images unless attached to a USB drive,
>>locally.
>>
>>
>>http://www.todo-backup.com/
>>
>>If anyone plays around with it , or has already, let me know.  I’m trying to
>>not futz with it now in lue of doing other shit, I should have done!
>>
>>
>>
>>Kurt Rein
>>Mobile Computer Wizard
>>858 345-0382 Cel
>>619 255-1215 Office
>

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