The Elvidge Family

Here's how I successfully made a backup of my Windows (C) drive in Ubuntu - so I can restore if things go wrong.
1. Install Partimage: apt-get install partimage (I go into root console by typing 'sudo -s')
2. Check the place you want to backup to is mounted in Ubuntu/Linux. In my case Ubuntu has already mounted my Documents partition as '/media/Docs'
3. Run PartImage: sudo partimage
4. Select the partition to backup - in my case it was sda1 - the top partition (NTFS)
5. enter the destination of the backup file: /media/Docs/Backups/XP-Backup-2008-12 (note this is case sensitive!!)
6. I left all the other settings unchanged - F5 to go to the next screens
Backup took about 3 hours for 15GB.

Thanks to this guide here