Windows XP Imaging

Alrighty here is the scenario, I have a drive, with Windows XP and several programs on one partition, and even more programs on a second partition on this drive.
I am planning on building a new computer in the near future using the same drive and would like to forgo the whole reinstalling of my programs and maybe Windows XP. Would there be a way to move an image onto a back up, then just format and reimage the drive onto the new computer? and if so what program? or even just migrate my programs over to a fresh install of windows xp?

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by serda on 03/03/05 03:58 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

I am fairly certain that if you have access to a linux or BSD box you can mount your XP drive -r (read only)on it and use dd (data dump - which is used extensively by the digital forensic community to image drives for evidence) to make an exact duplicate on another formated (for NTFS or FAT32) drive (of the same or larger volume).
If it does work this is as close to a free solution as I know about. Ghost is a pain in the arse and the other tool I don't know about - never heard of it. There are other imaging tools available (SafeBack is one that's been around forever) but they all cost a few bucks.
If I were you I would post a question on the linux forum to get specific details on this. Of course, if you don't have access to a stable unix machine this won't help much. Maybe even OSX would work since it's using a unix kernel. I'm curious but don't really know.