Macrium Reflect has a free solution:
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

It is quite easy to use and reliable.

Acronis True Image is regularly $50, but they often run $10 or completely free deals if you sign up to their newsletter:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

Norton Ghost is the favorite of sysadmin's. If you use it with Sysprep, you can have an extremely flexible image: http://blog.hishamrana.com/2006/02/22/how-to-image-windows-xp-with-ghost-and-sysprep/

Personally, I use Acronis True image. I store images on a network drive and restore them as needed. It works exceptionally well. In a small enterprise model, this can save thousands of dollars in support costs. In the systems that I have supported, I have built a network attached storage unit with FreeNas and created clean images of each workstation with the users apps, preferences, policies etc in place. Then, when something (anything) goes wrong, I connect remotely press the magic "re-image" button, tell the user to go have a coffee for 20 minutes and (again) like magic... anything wrong with the workstation is solved.
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