Does anyone have a good recommendation similar to nortan ghost that would allow me to back up my current drives onto another one. Windows 8 only allows it to be to the same drive and that really doesn't help if my drive craps out.
Windows 8 comes with it's own utility give it a try : open a admin cmd type :
recimg /createimage c:\foldertostoreimage
you can do multiple images and with:
recimg /setcurrent c:/newfolderwithimage
you can default the image you want.
The tricky part is that you need to use this file to recover the image : imagex ( link ) you will to put it in a bootable device and run it from command.
Tutorial Good luck.