Best hard drive backup software

Does anyone know of any good free hard drive backup software?  Ghost isn't free, and all I could find is this shitty thing that can only do a sector-by-sector backup because it doesn't understand NTFS, end result being that I've got a 160 GB hard disk image for a disk whose used space is under three gigs.  Not easy to store away for backup.

So, TIA

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That was never what I asked for. 

I already have several layers of redundancy for my personal files. 

What I was asking for was a system backup.