create an image of a partition

[Roman Joost]

Does somebody know a better way to create an image of a existing
partition? 

I know dd=/dev/hda1 of=windows_partition.img, but the image has a size
of 3 GB. I thought about backup a fresh win98 installation, so i can write 
the image back to the partition if windows goes crazy. I don't want
install all the drivers and time consuming reboots. 

Maybe someone know a good tool or some docs, which describes a good way
to backup the data like "dd". 


Thanks, 

Roman
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