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Originally Posted by admagic

I have been using Acronis Trueimage

When I lost my disk the most irritating and hardest thing to restore was the applications - I have loads

The benefit of trueimage that is it creates bootable media backups - all applications, OS, included.

So if I have a total write off , I can still boot from the disk, within minutes!!!

worth looking at....

This sounds perfect! A program that can make and reboot an exact copy of my PC, thanks