Thanks for the suggestions. I will take a look at Macrium.
1. Is your external USB hard drive a USB 3.0 or not? If it is, I don't think Easeus linux bootable disk has USB 3.0 drivers, only 2.0 and 1.1.
2. Also, try to connect the USB drive to your computer while it is off and then boot with the bootable disk.
3. Creating a Easeus WinPE bootable disk rather than the default linux bootable disk may also resolve your issue. Most of the bootable disks from backup/recovery vendors are linux based by default and may give an option for WinPE based bootable disk.
4. There's also the possibility of looking at BIOS settings regarding the USB interface.
-patthecat
1. It's USB 2.0
2. I will try that
3. The Easeus WinPE disk is probably not available with the free version.
4. The BIOS setting looks fine, AFAIK. Booting from USB drives is enabled.
If you are using Windows 7 what about Backup & Restore built into windows. Does full system imaging to external hard disks and DVDs. It automatically includes system partitions but you can add in extra partitions too.-Carol Haynes
Windows 7's Backup & Restore doesn't compress the disk image. If your partition has 30 GB of data the disk image will be 30GB. Third party tools usually offer compression. Easeus Todo Backup reduces the image by more than 50%. So the 30 GB partition will take only 15 GB or less to store. Saves HDD space.