sony has a system recover software that comes with vaio pcs that allows you to do this but i dont know if its available outside them.
other than that norton ghost is your best bet, since its difficult to make a cd that reinstalls software, imaging the drive is much better
http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_1.htm
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...Section=1&Src=
i also really like this software,
http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/down.htm but you'll have to build a bootable cd with it on it and the images etc, yourself. this isn't really all that hard to do
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/