I hate doing disaster recovery on an XP
box. 

But Vista has a separate backup routine that
backs up an entire system.  It is called CompletePC, this backs up the whole
system to a VHD file. 

That's a "virtual hard drive" for Microsoft's desktop virtual machine
manager, Virtual PC. 

You can use something called the Windows Recovery
Environment to restore that VHD to a new piece of hardware or, potentially, you
could just mount it as a virtual system.  Pretty cool.

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