Disk Image Dual boot

Hiya...

New hard drive.....set to dual boot with XP Home SP3 and Karmic Koala. Both installs are new and fully updated to this point. Now I want to take a snapshot of this pristine environment so that when I mess it all up later, I can get back to this very same comfort zone. Also don't want to have to activate XP all over again. I am thinking I should want seperate images for each OS......right? What do I need to do here? Program suggestions?

Thanks.

There are an untold number of freeware and $ware backup programs. What you want is one that creates a disk image, a bit-for-bit copy of the hard disk. Among the free choices are:

• Macrium Reflect
  http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp
  
  
• DriveImageXML
  http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

One good $ware choice is:

• Acronis True Image Home
  http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/