[Bill Douglas]

Thanks to the recommendations from the guys on the other thread. I got a Western Digital 2Tb USB drive for about USD$110 and a friend gave me a copy of what they use at his work on a CD. I booted off the CD which loaded "Mini Windows XP" and ran Ghost. It did an image backup of the complete hard disk onto the USB drive. I'll store it and the boot disk off-site. The mini XP was good because it had USB support and didn't need to load any Vista files, so no files "in use" and therefore missed during backup up.