Great Disk Imager tool: Macrium Reflect Free

It’s free for home use.

I am reloading the OS on a laptop at the moment, and my usual tools (Clonezilla, BartPE with Ghost) would not work on it.

This app works just as well as Acronis or Symantec Ghost. I installed the app on a Vista PC, and it imaged a 100 gig drive (40 gig image) in about twenty minutes, and then successfully created a bootable CD with the application on it, so you could restore to a blank hard drive.

http://www.macrium.com/ReflectFree.asp