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

[Wayne Davis]

"Acronis True Image" should do the trick. It will even see network 
shares and USB drives. You will need to use a "Acronis Boot Disc" Which 
it can create on your burner once you install it on the WINDOWS side. 
(I) use it to back up XP and Linux Patitions

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.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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