Creating and restoring image backups

[J Bickhard]

I have a computer running Windows XP home edition, and have been
trying (rather unsucessfully) to create a full-image backup of the
80GB harddrive onto my USB seagate 350(?) GB external hard drive. My
question is this: is there a way, with the Ubuntu boot disk, to make
this backup without installing Ubuntu on the computer in question.

Jake, Editor of Micro 100 Magazine