Patent ID: 7669021

Claim:
A method of imaging at least one memory area of a computer-readable medium associated with a computing device, said computing device having a first operating system associated therewith, said memory area comprising one or more volumes, said method comprising: booting the computing device into a second operating system that is not associated with the first operating system, wherein the memory area associated with the computing device is offline when the computing device is booted into the second operating system; identifying at least one of the volumes of the memory area associated with the computing device, said identified volume spanning one or more partitions, each partition having logical files stored thereon, wherein at least one of said logical files is inaccessible for imaging unless the memory area is offline; and for each of the partitions of the identified volume: receiving, from a user, a selection of one or more of the logical files stored on the partition; copying the selected logical files to an image file, said image file being configured for containing one or more images, wherein the selected logical files are copied to an image in the image file; determining volume information for the partition; determining partition information for the partition; and storing each of the determined volume information and the determined partition information as a separate image in the image file for reconstructing the partition.