PS Image for Windows can image the partition it's running from using
"phylock," but I don't think it's a great idea. If you do that, close
all programs. I trierd it and had something get out of synch from
running some portable apps from another partition while imaging; one of
them wouldn't start up any more when testing a rostore of the image.
Howevere, using bootitng I have a recent bootable copy of C: on there
(it's just 20 gigs, my data is on another shared partition). I can boot
to the copy, and run the same portable apps while imaging the original,
which is then not active. But the simple way would be to boot to a CD or
floppy of Image for DOS (you could use bootitng but you'd get the ver. 1
image -- "bing" will be updated to ver. 2 eventually -- and Image for
DOS can be set not to image the page file and hibernate file).

My 20 gig C: has about 5 gigs on it not including the page file, and it
takes about 6 minutes to image and verify it byte-by-byte.

It you set the images to be in segments 4 gigs or less, you can later
burn them onto DVD from your NTFS partition.

You can try everything in trial versions -- they're offering bootitng
and the 3 Image products for $50 together. I think Image for DOS is $20.

If you're really broke, you can just use a CD or floppy of BING. It will
not require registration (forgive me, terabyte!). Just go into
maintenance mode when it starts up after deciding not to install it.
Remember, it makes ver. 1 images (the Image products are in ver. 2).
Also it doesn't do byte-by-byte restore verification. Or you could use a
CD of BING to manage partitions and buy Image for DOS to do the imaging.
Or you could go the whole hog and buy BING and be able to boot multiple
C: partitions.
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