You need to look at drive imaging software, which make an exact copy of your partition/hard disk and this backup image can be restored. There are many different ones out there some are even free, but I have no personal experience of any other drive imaging applications other than the one I use ‘Drive Image’ and old version that still works on my XP Pro system. It was the last version from PowerQuest before Symantec bought out the company.

There is another application called Drive Image, not by PowerQuest, I don’t know about that one.