Re: Need image creating tool (like acronis true image) that works with winxp 64 bit p
Acronis' emergency discs, which you can create from Windows once you install the Windows version, let you boot into a Linux-based version of Acronis' utilities that's virtually identical to the Windows version. They boot very quickly.
Acronis TI comes with a BartPE plugin (plus there are ones written by other people for True Image and Disk Director - Acronis' partition manager), and I do create BartPE discs of Acronis TI+Disk Director also, since there are some RAID systems which the linux version doesn't include the capability of recognizing yet.
Acronis' emergency disc-making utility lets you create the emergency discs with both TI + Disk Director on the same disc, if you have them both installed in Windows at the time, which is what I do.
The emergency CD version of TI lets you backup and restore across your home network as well. I don't recall about the home versions of TI, but at least the corporate versions allow to you do that to and from FTP as well, although I never have. Lots of options. Acronis has it's quirks, too, but well worth it.
I switched from Partition Magic to DD several years back after it stopped getting updated and got sold to Symantec. I also had some catastrophes that PM caused due it not being updated to support all modern hardware.
Something else you might be interested in if you didn't already know. Have you heard of
VistaPE? I haven't fully utilitized it yet, but it looked very promising.