Creating a system image from an external hdd?

[SimonC]

A laptop we have has a failing hdd and I want to create a system image before it dies.
The only spare hdd space I have is a 1tb drive inside pc.

Dunno if you can, but ideally what I would like to do is, take the laptop drive out, put that in an enclosure, connect it to the pc and create a system image of the drive and store it on the 1tb.

Can I do that?


TIA.

 

[zeegy]

Yep, that would be fine.

The other alternative is to use a live-cd containing some cloning software (like clonezilla) create a share on your PC with the 1tb Drive, to which then you can create an image on that drive over the network from your laptop and its live cd.

A usefull guide can be found at http://mylinuxramblings.wordpress.c...eenas-or-network-share-to-backup-a-hard-disk/