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12 to 18 hours to image 85GB? That's really wierd. There really must be something wrong with your installation. My 50GB installation only takes about 30 mins with Win 7 System Image backup and it was imaged to another partition on the same hard drive. You should consider doing a clean install to fix whatever is causing it to be that slow.

Oh, BTW, I have also used EaseUs ToDo Backup free edition. It offers different levels of compression to save save at the expense of speed. Perhaps I should try Macrium and compare the results.