Program to create recovery disks?

[albumleaf]

This is a tad off topic, but does anyone know of a program (preferably free of course ) that will create iso files (or equivalent) that can be used as restore disks? Like say I want to back up the contents of my computer right now so I can restore it immediately if my hard drive dies. Is there such a program?

thanks
-kent

 

[Budman]

Norton ghost works fine.

but it's not free.