Firstly i'm running the win 7 beta on virtual pc. I would like to create a system image of my win 7 installation. When I go to "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Backup and Restore" and click on "create a image backup" on the left pane the "create a system image" window comes up. But when I select the "on a hard disk" option and from the box underneath i click "refresh" no hard drives / folders come up and I can't save to any location. How do you fix this problem?

anyone else having this problem / know a fix for it?

Hi dr fireI have also found the W7 image backup to be problematic when installed on VPC.You should be able to simply share a folder on the host hard drive, assign it a drive letter and choose that as the backup location, but this does not always work.When I run into this problem, I simply copy the files (xxx.vhd and xxx.vmc) associated with the installation to a backup location.If you run into a disaster, you can simply start the VPC Console, click New and then Add an Existing Virtual Machine, point the wizard to the xxx.vmc file and re-create the installation in the state it was in when you saved the files.Hope this helps. Ronnie Vernon MVP