System Image Restore Failed

[Dave-H]

Thanks both.
I've installed DiskGenius, the portable version of which works fine on XP, although the installer version won't install on XP.
That will back up drives to files, although unlike the Windows backup files, you don't seem to be able to mount them and extract individual files from them, which is a shame.
It also cannot back up the drive it's running on, but that's not too much of a problem with a multi-boot system, of course.
I will look at the other options mentioned.

Anyway, this is now all off-topic for this thread.
Thanks for all the help everyone as always.
I will post a new thread if I need more advice on backup systems, although which OS section I'm going to put it in I don't know!

Cheers, Dave.