It seems to me that having your disk imaged away from the vagueries of the itneraction of other programs, and the potential of having data sitting in memory not flushed to disk, make "online" or "hot" imaging a risk business. Or at least have "offline" an option for those who have problems with "inline" Sheesh, Nortons has a Recovery Disk which boots into Win/2000/XP or something, to allow you to recover from an Image, and it nicely gives access to various drive types, USB, SCSI, IDE, with FAT or NTFS files systems or CD or DVD, so why wouldn't you use the same methodology to create the image file in the first place.
Why this thing about having the Imaging software run "online" from within Windows itself.
NORTON GHOST 9 SERIAL NUMBER UPGRADE
My downtime and exposure to a upgrade event risk has been very sad. NET framework, and require defragment of the Disk and the NTFS MFT, and disabling, antivirus, firewall, tape back up software does not sit happily with me. Software that itself needs upgrades to things like the. The reason I image a disk is because I want to do an upgrade and want to be able to absolutely and totally roll it back if it doesn t work. So after three days on the Symantec Help line, have had me do more upgrades and suggestion than you could poke a stick at. I keep getting the ubiquitous "EA39070A: The internal structure of the PQI file is invalid or unsupported" when I try to verify it. So far, I have not got one successful image from it.