Tool for creating system image from DOS (should be USB bootable) ..?

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Published on 2011-10-17T08:09:53Z Indexed on 2011/11/22 1:56 UTC
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I want to know if there's any decent tool which can be used to create the system image from DOS .. What I specifically want to do is to put the program in my FAT32 formatted USB, then boot the target computer from the USB so that the tool runs, and then it should be able to create a complete system image of the entire system, and store it on the USB itself ..

Please note that I can ONLY do this from boot time because of other limitations .. I cannot go into any OS to do it from there .. So I need tools which can do this at boot time from DOS ..

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