That's good news, Don! You'll be happier, I bet. Musicians often have so many programs installed that re-installing Windows and re-registering everything might take days of miserably dull work. Using the image file, you do it in 40 minutes unattended. All your registration keys, bookmarks, Windows Theme, and such are preserved as they were when you backed up.

There are a number of good image programs. The Reflect thing seems the best free one. It's not horribly expensive if you decide to purchase it. The paid version will do "incremental" backups, which save a few minutes. I stayed with Acronis in the end, because it's just as good, and I already owned it. But switching to Reflect would cause no drama.

I hope you have made yourself a Boot CD, so you can start up when Windows is wrecked, to begin the reconstruction. That CD boots you into Linux point-and-click screens, and you restore from there.

Larry
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