Freeware Descriptions:
ODIN is a utility for easy backup of hard drive volumes or complete hard drives under Windows.
Here is complete features (taken from authors site):
A disk image can be created or restored. Only used clusters can be backed up, compression on the fly is possible. It runs under 32-Bit Windows Operating Systems. How many hours did you spend in setting up your Windows system? Setting up the operating system, installing programs, customizing to your personal needs.
Do you want to be protected against hard disk failures, viruses or other malware? Just restore your system within minutes. Why spend money for a commercial solution? Now with snapshot support (using the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service).
Features:
- Make snapshots of partitions or disks (ensure a consistent backup)
- Backup used blocks when complete disks with multiple partitions are saved
- backup/restore of volume or complete hard disk
- backup used blocks or all blocks
- compress data on backup
- verify backup image files for damages
- Support of all Windows file systems
- Split image files to chunks (e.g. for burning to CD/DVD)
- Does not require installation, just start odin.exe
- Can be run from USB stick
- Supports Windows PE (BootDisks, BartPe, etc.)
- Use multiple CPUs
What’s New in version 0.3:
Changes:
- Introduce command line interface and odinc.exe as command line application
- Display volume label in device list
- 64-Bit version of ODIN
Bug fixes:
- Resolve threading issue causing sometimes hangs when restoring or verifying
- resolve VSS error (inappropriate state for this function) when backing up an entire disk with snapshot that contains an unmounted volume

File Size / OS:
- 358 KB / Windows 9x - ME - 2000 - NT - XP - 2003 - Vista
Download ODIN 0.3: