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HD Imaging software

1- Im looking for the best HD Imaging software, suggestion?
2- I never did create HD Image before. How am I supposed to start looking ? I found some software but it is expensif. I only need to make HD Image of a old win98 system, you have a suggestion?

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It's a bit "geeky", but Boot-It NG is an excellent imager.   The free demo download will work fine ... but IF you need to image to an external USB drive it will only work with USB v2.0, so for an older system you may want to use Image for DOS instead (there's also a free demo of it).

http://www.bootitng.com/bootitng.html
http://www.bootitng.com/image.html

Both work very well ... and are very focused on the specific task (unlike many of the alternatives).
gparted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/) is an excellent free tool - you boot from a LiveCD and you can copy from one disc to another. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to allow copying an image to a CD or DVD from withinh the LiveCD, although you could probably do so if you were familiar enough with Linux.
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my guess, U should be looking for Acronis True Image image drive software.
This software has just release and has many useful features.
It's rather cheap, and unlike BING is very easy in use.
u can create image of full   disk (including OS) and restore it with just one click.

here is a product homepage
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/features.html
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One Last thing, I think if I change my HD and I restore my HD Image it will works but which piece can i change too.
ex.: memory? processor? motherboard? video card? network card?

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