I need to find a good program for imaging and or backing up my primary hard drive, I would like to make a complete image of this hard drive because at this point its stable and I have things in place the way I like it, just in case it crashes I can restore at least to this point all windows settings program files everything if possible.

I know of many good imaging programs, but none that are free. Did you try a Google search? Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!

alot of demos for free trial: try here <ahref="http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/backupandimage.shtml"> hard disk backups also suggest backing up on cd

Norton Ghost - a worthwhile investment or another non-freebie.

you can download and use a trial of accronis (probably the easiest to use of all though I like ghost better)

Had many problems with acronis ...be careful and google reviews first. Not very favorable.

In my opinion, an imaging program is well wroth the cost. It's the most valuable program I have. I take regular backups and it's saved me grief many times when I've had system problems. Sorry, I do not check for private messages