Macrium Reflect

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Macrium Reflect™ Free Edition is free disk imaging software. Using Macrium Reflect™ Free Edition you can create an exact image of partitions on your hard disk or an image of your disk and it works for Windows XP, Vista, Win7 32 and 64 and Linux. Well with Linux you have to run it in Windows to create the backup but you can restore either vioa the rescue disk. Macrium Reflect is written in Linux but has a Windows interface. It works quite well I have made disk copies and partitions and the only problem I have found (and it could be my fault) is that I have not gotten it to replace the GRUB boot record properly. It can be gotten at....
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

[MLyon]

You can use win7 built in tool to make backups of your entire system, and it has image backup system that can help you out.

Here are the steps:

We can now create image (clone) backup of drives easily using the in-built Image Backup feature. Though there are few limitations basic Windows user will find it very useful. So how to access and use this feature?

1. Open Control Panel, under System and Security open Backup your computer option.
2. In the lift pane, open the link “Create an image backup”.
3. Select the destination drive or Optical drive or network location to store backup files.
4. Click Next to include/exclude drives in the image backup.Note that the disk that Windows is installed on will always be included in the backup.You cannot include the disk that you are saving the backup to.
5. In the next step Windows 7 will give a last chance to confirm the backup settings you have chosen in the last step.Once you are agree with the backup settings just click Start backup button to start backup process.Backup process few minutes to hours depending on the size of the disk.
6. After finishing the backup process Windows 7 prompts you an option to create a recovery CD so that you can restore the created image using the bootable recovery disc.