I have been testing these for years.
Easiest to use, with best compression, quickest to restore, and most reliable (it's been around since DOS days):
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows.htm
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-dos.htm
Between Acronis and Ghost, I found Acronis better to use from startup media and Ghost better to use from Windows to image one OS from the other and vice versa. But neither Ghost nor Acronis is better than Terabyte Image.
If you make a Dos disk how can they only let you use it for 30 days.