taking a snapshot of my newly formatted and optimized Vista partition?

Hi all,
I am wondering if Rescue and Recovery can be used to take a snapshot of my Vista partition which i had just reloaded and optimized. On my desktop running winxp i would just use Norton Ghost in DOS mode to create an image of that partition.

I've tried looking at the manuals of lenovo regarding this but nothing was said. If nothing could achieve this then I will use Acronis Trueimage 11 or something else.

Lastly, whats the difference between a Recovery Disc/Media and Rescue Media? In making things simple i believe they made things more complicated for those who knows what they want exactly.

Just trying to use whats already on my T61, the RnR 4.2. Thanks!

 

something to add. i am trying to burn the image out to DVDs because RnR 4.2 keeps saying that i have insufficient space when my Vista takes 8gb in C: and my destination drive, D: has 20gb of free space.

 

Next, i tried the windows complete pc backup. theres no option to unselect the hidden lenovo partition from being backed up.

I had enough and uninstalled Rescue and Recovery.

Lastly, i tried acronis and solved the problem. I set it at max compression and the backup ended up at around 4gb.

 

If you have a second computer and a second hard drive, you can take out your current hard drive and use tools like Clonezilla, Partimage, or g4u and copy it to the second hard drive for a permanent backup.