How to make a Disk image of computer?

Question

i would like to make a backup of my computer drive so as to install it to the way it was if i eer need to. I hear to do this you need to make a disk image?

can you please tell me a good free program that will allow me to do this?

and do you burn the disk image to a cd or what? if so just a normal 700mb cd? and in the event of a problem, how would u go about using this disk image to restore your computer?

thanks

Answer 1

Try Clonezilla:

www.clonezilla.org/

Download the LIVE CD .iso file. It also has instructions on how to go about using it:

http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-liv...

Answer 2

yep clonezilla is good. not very easy to use though.

theres a lot of free tools available. see

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-fre...

if you have some money to spend on it, the norton ghost or acronis truimage are both excellent.

you will need a free disk or partition separate to the disk/partition you are imaging, to be able to write an image file.