Webshark,
Drive Image makes a complete image of the HD and compresses it. You can select low, med, or high. It doesn't compress enough to fit on a zip disk though. It will span CD's if you have a burner. I just save the image file to another partition on my hard drive and also burn a basic image to CD with drivers, browser, ZA and a few other basic things installed.
My basic image is about 495 MB and my most recent (just of my C: drive) is 650 MB, using high compression.
It will also copy the entire contents of your drive to another HD if you ever upgrade.
Who is General Failure and why is he reading my disk?