How to burn an image of my C drive on my laptop..experts help?

how can i burn an image of my c drive which contains my windows and program files etc etc





i have a HP laptop with the HP Backup and recovery pre-installed but that is no good as you can only burn once.





i will need to make a bootable ghost image but i dont know how to as i'm quite new to this but am very reliable on computers..i want to learn and experience this experience on how to create images also this will benefit me as i hope to have an image of my c drive as it it will be very helpful because system recovery is too much of a hassle.





please i need advice and help in all sorts of directions..links and programs names willl be helpful..also i have no floppy drive on my laptop so icnt use a bootable diskette i will have to make a cd..but how??





i would appreciate anyhelp..i've heard once you have done it..the next time is so easy.





Thanks

How to burn an image of my C drive on my laptop..experts help?
ummm well if u want a complete image of C, not just the files but the boot image too then ull have to use Norton Ghost, shop around for best price. This program does have kind of a high error rate but give it a shot since its one of the few programs that will do that. I personally just back up my account, all that C drive stuff is not neccesarry unless u have crap loads of programs
Reply:buy a bootable cd, coz making a bootable cd with a cd-writer still needs a floppy drive, i think. install another harddisk for backup. OR if you reformat ur pc make two drives. drive c %26amp; d, you call this partition. allocate smaller space for drive c where system files will be installed, so everytime u format your pc, it will not take u that long. dont worry files in drive d will be intact.
Reply:I use Norton Ghost v10. If you have external hard drive, you can copy C-Drive to external HD and archive it (burn it to disks in case of problems). Norton Ghost is extremely easy to use and it can make incremental backups (as you go along) or complete backups. I make complete backups once a week or so and every so often, I will archive it so that I will have disks to rely on in case of emergency.





Hope it helps!!