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I guess I am somewhat puzzled as to why you don’t test using a VM? VMWare’s VM takes about 10 mins. to set up.
Or, take an image backup before testing? I use Paragon’s software and always image from a bootable CD with WIN PE on it. Image of my 40 GB partition takes 5 min. max. I never had an image restore fail when imaging off of a Paragon boot CD with WIN PE on it.
BTW - WIN 7 includes an image backup/restore utility. I haven’t used it so can’t vouch for it.