I'm looking for a program like ye olde Norton Ghost that can copy an old drive to a new one. The drive has XP installed, and is formatted NTFS. It's been quite a few years since I've needed to do this, so I'm not sure what the best software for this is nowadays.

Any recommendations?

Fairly sure that either Knoppix or Gparted can mirror drives, they're both bootable Linux ISOs.

My dad uses Ghost, and I'm fairly certain he has never paid for it.

Anyways CoolMatty you can try to get the tools to make WIMs*. It's basically an archive that can store all NTFS metadata too, AFAIK. They are mostly designed to automate a Windows setup, but maybe you can just do a general purpose backup with it too.

* - These are what Vista/7 Windows Setup uses.

Clonezilla

Hmmm, a few months ago my parents HD was dying and I found a free app that cloned it. Worked perfectly... I'm trying to find it again...

http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

It was that.

I used clonezilla recently to back up my ntfs drive. It's a bootable cd with a crappy curses interface, but it worked well.

Thirded. I use this in a number of different scenarios, it works very well.