I use Macrium Reflect for imaging. They offer a good completely free Home version to try. This, after Acronis TrueImage served me well for a couple of years but

I use Macrium Reflect for imaging. They offer a good completely free Home version to try. This, after Acronis TrueImage served me well for a couple of years but got too bloated with the shovelware. Reflect has both imaging and file backup. Had to use Symantec Ghost only 3 years ago only to find Symantec has done jack squat to improve the PowerQuest DriveImage they bought. It had terrible network drivers and antiquated Win95-era boot drivers and special workarounds for ancient network cards like 3Com.