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You might benefit by checking out some of the many tutorials stored on the forum (already mentioned by Bumpkin), written by very experienced members:
Imaging strategies (by whs)
Using Macrium imaging: Imaging with free Macrium (by whs)
Using Windows imaging: Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup (by Brink)
And a very long thread by many members discussing their strategies: System Image Backup Strategies/Thoughts
If you've got access to a spare external HD you can test that your image works by restoring to that spare HD and then boot from it. You do have to verify that your machine actually booted from the spare rather than normal working drive because if it works, the booted spare will look and work almost exactly like your machine did when the image was made.
Last edited by F5ing; 26 Jun 2012 at 17:41.