John:
yeah; you are going to have major problems backing up that big boot drive to that small 15 gig
an image is approximately one half the size of the copied one
example = if your C drive is a 40 gig partition then you will need a 20 gig space +or- to hold the image
thats another reason why your C drive should be kept to around 30 to 40 gigs
so a 250 gig drive could hold multiple images
in your situtation I would use the free program and buy another 250 gig drive to save to
I dont know about you, but my time is worth a hellva lot more than $50.00 for 3 or 4 hours of frustration while you reload an OS / updates / all programs / data / then tweak all your programs to run they way you like
thats pure
for me