I like to test my images, but I try to do so on a different drive than the one from which I took the image. That way, I'm not dead in the water if things go awry. Using the commercial version of Acronis True Image (ATI), I've had no problems creating and restoring images. In fact I did so this morning from an image I made earlier this year and it worked just fine. It was on a USB external drive, and I restored about a 30GB Vista and 25GB XP image (for dual boot); the restore took about 1 1/2 hours. Both OS's booted fine.

24 hours for an image seems excessive to me. Did you try to use maximum compression, perhaps? I know with ATI, you get little storage benefit, but it takes a lot longer to create the image.


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