I have a dual boot win7RC x64 and vistax32 ultimate. The vista32 partition is on the primary drive and is the first partition. Win7 is on a partition on a secondary drive. When booted to Win7 the vista partition is visible as G: by activating it though the disk manager tool. When I try to create a system image with Win7 backup (both RC and Beta) the backup app states that it's trying to create a system image of (G:). It gets to 57% and doesn't complete. This seems to be a consistent problem with backup app. Anyone else have this? Solutions?

Nothing? Someone on the backup team really needs to look into this (or maybe I'm just impatient, but after 17 hours I'm on page 3!)

Hi Jim,We regret the inconvenience caused. What is the error message that you are getting? Can you please paste the error message here?Can youalso send across a screenshot of the diskmanagement UI the contents of C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsBackup to sneham_at_microsoft_dot_com (Remove the underscores and replace the words with symbols wherever applicable). It will help us investigate your issue. Thanks,Sneha [MSFT]

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I've observed a similar problem. On my system, the first partition on drive 0 is XP. On drive 2, the first partition is the Windows 7 boot partition, and the second partition is the Windows 7 system partition (commonly called c:). When I run W7, drive 2 is the boot partition and C:, and drive 0 is F:(the XP drive). Drive 1 is D: for both operating systems. The system image is written to drive D:, but it insists on including both C: and F: in the system image, and I can't find a way to tell it that only the C: drive is Windows 7. Thanks Don

Hi Don,Your Win7 OS is installed on C:, so C: is your boot partition. However, looks like your system partition is stillF: (the XP partition). This is most probably the case if you have installed a different OS first and then installed Win7. If your system crashes, the system files residing on C: are also critical to get restored. Only then, your machine would boot. Hope this clarifies. Thanks,Sneha [MSFT]