I use System Rescue CD on a bootable flash drive and use partimage,
ntfsclone, dd, dd_rescue, and other Linux tools for hard drive images.
NTFSClone in particular is useful for creating images of Windows
partitions. Partimage works similarly, but I find ntfsclone piped
through gzip to be faster.

FWIW, the backup feature in Windows 7 seems to be similarly broken.

- Eric.


--
ecjb1969