Suggestions for v1.4?

I have a request. It should be able to make a restore disk so a hard drive could be restored from another hard drive or network location.

Here's one MAJOR request: the ability to run an image on the machine you imaged it for.

I made 3 separate backups before loading Windows 7, since I wanted to have a clean install:

1. Disk2VHD
2. Windows NT Backup ("backup" on Windows XP)
3. VMWare image
   

Naturally, I thought I'd just grab any files I need off one of the _three_ backups.

I can't use the VHD because I'm trying to boot/mount it on the machine it was created on, which Disk2VHD can't do.

I can't use the backup because Windows 7's backup won't read the files, and the Windows NT Backup utility won't work on 7: MS removed the service that Backup needs in order to rest

So, I'm now down to hoping that my VMWare image is good, or that it can use one of the two other backups.  Or that I can find all my disks and set up a new virtual machine, then restore off of an XP install

This is beyond frustrating.  I can't imagine that my image-the-drive-I'm-installing-onto idea is a unique one.

Thanks for the suggestions, Garry.