Best procedure/soft for backup of entire drive ?

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Hello,

I'm looking for a backup software that would enable me to do the
following in case of hard disk crash:
1/ boot from a CD containing the backup/restore program and
a USB driver,
2/ plug an external USB disk containing the image of my crashed
hard drive,
3/ then find this image from my CD, and restore it to a brand new
internal hard disk.

To sum up: I'm looking for a small software, allowing me to install
it on a CD to boot from, on which I'll put a USB driver as well, to
access an external USB disk containing my backups...

I'd like to be able to backup an entire drive, whatever the
filesystems
(NTFS...) existing on them...

Are there free programs to do that ?

In advance, thanks very much.
Regards,
Spendius
.

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