"Jeff Liebermann" <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote in message
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>
> 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.
>

you may want to take a gander at this....
from http://www.acronis.com/support/kb/ar...388/index.html

Starting Acronis Product from USB Flash Drive

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