I used the SystemRescueCD to test the functionality of Partimage.
2 PCs connected with crossover cable
Cloning of the partition (ntfs) worked without errors.
Restore starts but somewhere in the middle the programm and the server crashes. At the client you see the errormsg:
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'CExceptions'
Tried it again got the same error (at another position of the restoration).