How do I save a disk image of my laptop hard drive?

[Alan Dayley]

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Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have a laptop that dual boots Windows and Debian. I need to make a complete 
> backup of the entire drive. I have another Windows XP machine on my network 
> (or another Debian machine) with some extra disk space, so I would like to 
> create an image of the disk drive and store it there. I then want to restore 
> it later. How do I do that?
> 
> I have been googling around for "hard drive backup" and "partition backup". I 
> found a few options, tested them on the Window 200 partition, and they don't 
> seem to be able to do the job. One problem I have is that Windows 2000 does 
> not see the Linux partition and Debian does not see the Windows 2000 
> partition. Based on what I read, I should unmount the drive I am copying - is 
> this true?
> 
> I am not enough of a Linux guru to figure out how to use dd across the 
> network. Can I run dd on the system I am imaging?
> 
> Can I do this with a knoppix CD? Is there a howto somewhere? I couldn't find 
> it.

I'll ask the obvious question and then get out of the way:  Can you
remove the hard drive from the laptop?  If so, it's not difficult to
attach it temporarily to another computer and image it.

If you can't remove it, I'll follow the thread and learn since I have
not done such a backup either.

Alan


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