Hi, I am an image back up freak. What I did to backup my C:Drive with System is to take a new Hard Drive and particened it with a 200mb patrician with no drive letterand labeled it System. I then particined the rest of the drive and gave it a Drive letter C. Now I backed up my whole system with Windows 7 backup and stored the image on another Hard Drive and labeled it Backup Drive. I do not put anything on this Drive except the back up images.
Ok now that you have a backup image of your system on that drive, Make a Recovery CD in system backup. Take out the orid. Hard Drive and put it aside. Put in the New Drive that you Particined back into the computer and also put the CD that you created into your CD Drive and Boot from it.
You can then recover the image file that you made to the new Drive (which the computer thinks is your C Drive) and Viola, You now have a exact copy of your System that you can boot from and do anything you like with it. I put the orid. C Drive away in a safe place and use the new C Drive.
I continue to image back up every week on Sunday so I am up to date with what is on my C Drive. If I have a Hard Drive crash I can put the orid Hard Drive in my computer just to get booted up and do important things I need to do and When I have time to spend on my computer all I have to do is put back the crashed drive or a new one (if the Drive is really bad), and Recover it at my leisure and Viola, I am up and running again. You can also keep updating the Recovery on the Orid. Drive and then you will have 2 updated Drives always available.
Sorry about the long text. Oh, in case you are wondering about my post about Norton Ghost. I just like to be backed up in many places and that is why I purchased Ghost. I also like Ghost for all the extra thing you can do with the software that you cannot do with windows 7 backup. I never lose data or anything any more. I told you I was a backup Freak. Ha!
Remember you need 2 extra Drives (one as a clone of C and the other to install into you computer to put all you backup images there.
Hope that helped you.
Sincerely, Bernard.