I have been using the Image for Windows suite from Terabyte Unlimited for a long time now. Image. It is very powerful and reliable, and you get a version that installs and can run from within Windows, but you also can use a DOS boot disk version or a Linux Boot disk version that can both boot from a CD/DVD or USB stick. Probably can put it on a hard drive, but I have never tried.
The Linux boot is UEFI compatible and there is a UEFI version of the DOS boot disk. The utility to burn CDs or USB disks is included (makedisk.exe).
All the Windows, Dos and Linux boot choices give the same options. The Windows version gives the options of using either Windows shadow copy or their original drive snapshot tool called Phylock to capture the state of the drive at a point in time to make the image. As a result, the image includes everything including things like registry files.
The boot disks support networking, so you can boot from a USB stick and save to a network location. It can do differential imaging and it can merge differential images.
It can image to and from .VMDK virtual drives, so you can capture a drive on a PC and run it on, say, Virtualbox, or you can make a sysprep installer for a Windows version on Virtualbox, and write copies to hard drives. Very useful.
Works with FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, ReiserFS, and XFS partitions. If something uses these partitions, you can image it. This includes Windows (including servers - no special server version needed), Apple, Linux, DVD recorder drives, etc.
You have to pay, but you get free updates forever for the version you are on. They stick to one version for many years. I have been using it for something like 15 years and they have only changed the major version once. They do very regular minor version updates.
The Linux boot disk comes bundled with a number of other tools including a tool to mount and unmount partitions, Midnight Commander (a powerful file management tool - like Norton Commander on steroids). Good for recovering files from damaged Windows PC's as it bypasses the Windows folder protections - you can copy files from user directories without knowing the usernames and passwords.
There is a browser tool for the image files, so you can easily recover files and folders from an image file.
The price is US$38.94 and there is a 30 day trial available.
https://www.terabyteunlimited.comRichard