Recommended: Acronis 'Backup & Recovery' is Awesome!

I highly recommend Acronis products, especially the backup and recovery products. Using these products, you can backup your entire system to a backup image file and, if you every need to restore anything, you can restore individual files OR re-image your entire system.

You can do complete backups or incremental backups so that you can restore from selected points in time. If you don't need the complexity associated with products like Norton Ghost, you can use Acronis to image a base system onto multiple systems (if you follow all licensing requirements of all associated software).

Acronis products are great products, easy to install, and compatible with most current hardware (you can boot from different media and restore from USB connected drives, network drives, etc.). Acronis Home is an especially good deal at $49.

Some of Acronis' great products include:

Just click an above link to purchase a downloadable copy of the software. Acronis' main site is http://www.acronis.com