Norton Ghost is a very popular backup tool, as you propably already know. The feature that distinguishes Norton Ghost from it's competitors is that it is designed to get a complete system backup, relieving yourself from the burden of selecting individual folders or features to backup. This also makes recovering a very simple and straighforward procedure, since you get your hard disk back with all programs working in just a few clicks.

Something you may not know is that Norton Ghost can create a virtual hard disk out for you backup files. This virtual hard disk can have either VMWare or Microsoft Virtual PC format! So it very easy to create a mirror of your system in a virtual PC format. I discovered this feature in version 12 - I don't know if this was supported before.