Jeff Liebermann wrote:

>
> Ummm... fire up the task manager and look at the huge list of programs
> running in the background. All of them (and their data and log files)
> are susceptible to corruption. At this point, I'm abandoning my quest
> for a program that runs from Windoze, and only looking at programs
> that boot from a CD or flash drive.
>
I should have said minimal stuff was open. I haven't had any issues
imaging such systems or any that are VSS aware.

TI will build a some flavor Linux bootable recovery CD of itself and
they also have a plugin for Bart PE.