easy bcd is a great tool.i bought aomei autobackuper anyway.
ive got a cold boot disk from them that can backup/restore (download from tool itself)
but i mounted the image with easybcd so i can boot directly to it without going through windows, backups this way are a lot faster.
btw i backup to a 3.5" hdd in a 5.25"hotswap bay on the front of my pc
it has one really good feature, the tool itself has a built in pxe service so you can run it on your home server then any pc on your network can use it without a cd.
its free btw (i supported them because i really like it)
what do you guys use?
ive tried ghost,macrium reflect etc and wasnt keen on them for different reasons