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I think there's a /IM(age) switch to PIP, or something like that, which should do the job. Of course your concerns about open files on DL0 are perfectly valid. There is no guarantee that the target disk will be logically consistent if you do it this way. I don't think the checkpoint file should be an issue but it depends on what you intend to do with the target disk. If you were to use it to reboot your system from, I don't think it would matter if there's stuff in the checkpoint file or not since the operating system probably "logically-zeroes" the checkpoint file at boot time anyway (pretends there's nothing there, even if there is something there). This is speculation on my part, though. -Bill