I have used Ghost Corporate Edition (version 8 if I remember correctly) to image laptop drives at work a couple of times. It works pretty well. I have only used it with ext2 and ext3 file systems though and I don't know if the other common alternatives (reiserfs, xfs, jfs) are supported officially.
What I did was I created boot floppies using the Ghost wizard in Windows to support my network card, then popped in the floppy, booted from it and used the running Ghost Console service on a fileserver on the network to store the images. It all worked very well and was quicker than I expected.
After having replaced the small old hard drives in the laptops I used Ghost again to transfer the images back. All went well and the only additional thing I had to do was to reinstall the boot loader (simply by booting the Debian install CD in rescue mode and running /sbin/lilo).
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