System Backup on Windows 7

[silky666]

Hi Nerds ... My first post in the geeky area , I think.

Anyway, my C drive (system) is reporting drive errors ... windows pops up the odd random message about the drive about to fail etc.
And I cant be bothered doing a stage by stage rebuild of all my system apps and settings such as internet etc.
So I thought "I will backup a system image , and then restore that to a new drive".

a) all of my old (free ) backup apps like Acronis wont work with Windows 7.
b) I have tried the built in Win7 system backup and it fails at the end saying "bad clusters on source- backup stopped "

Whats good for doing a full system backup and restore on Windows 7.. and is FREE. ?

Thanks in advance.
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[panrider_uk]

Get a new free version of Acronis

Try Spinrite. It may repair the disc.

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[silky666]

[kawakid]

Why not use the Microsoft Tool for imaging.

It's called imagex

You need to download the automated installation disk, then create a Windows PE disk.l

But this disk is very very flexible. We have about 1600 pcs at work and that's what we use.
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