Question : Problem: Free Utility to Backup Data of Partition only

I am looking for a free solution to back up a partition.  I am using BootIt-ng (which I love) however the problem is that when you want to create a copy of a partition it wants to create an exact copy of the partition including the size.  

BootIt-ng gives me the option to copy data only however it still wants to copy all of the blank space.

I want to create an exact copy of 9GB of data on a 250GB partition.  It would be nice to be able to create a copy of the drive but only put it to a 20GB partition.

Is there a free bootable utility to do this?  

The only other method I was think would be able to create a 20GB NTFS partition, run BartPE and copy all of the files from the 250GB drive to the 20GB partition and then set that partition to an active one.

Thanks,
JOe K.

Answer : Problem: Free Utility to Backup Data of Partition only

As for free backup/restore utilites, I like this one:
http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

But if you want super-easy, you probably need to pay. Acronis works well and is pretty fool proof.http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/