[CS-FSLUG] Making disk images for backups

[N. Thompson]

I just had an incident with Windows XP after trying ares desktop, Grub 
(hard to remove) was giving me trouble and I was unable to restore the 
Windows boatloader from spare mandrake CD's (those usually do the trick 
though) so I tried the Windows XP cd. The commands for rescue on the 
Windows XP CD are unfortunately too similar sometimes and I ended up 
setting my computer up with a windows boot loader and two different 
entries for Windows, I tried to find out how to remove the spare entries 
but after having accidentally created a few more I discovered it was 
impossible and then I reinstalled Windows XP.

The re-installation process was long and unpleasant, the first time I 
found out that Windows had kept my program files folder from the 
previous installation in all its monstrous size but all the entries from 
add/remove programs were there, so I had to do a second reinstall and 
that time I made sure to have the drive reformatted previous to the 
installation starting.

Now I would like to make some sort of backup of my windows system with 
some sort of disk imaging tool if there is one available in either Linux 
or Windows. Does anyone know of one that I can get for free?