Good Free Backup Tool - with provisos

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I have seen some Backup Questions around. But they are not quite what I am looking for.

I would like to have a back up of my entire hard drive (to an external drive). I would like it to be the kind that has a base backup then just backs up the changes since the last backup.

I would like it to be able to have a fully restorable image of my hard drive (not just key files).

Lastly I would like it to be free (or super cheap). (The above requirements are important, but I will have to drop them if they up the price as my boss will not pay for them.)

I have a Solid State Hard Drive 250 GB backing up to a 1TB external hard drive using Windows XP.

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