[plug] backing up and restoring hard drive image

[Jason]

well guys, thanks for all the advice regarding my question below.

I got my replacement harddrive yesterday and everything was successful!

seeing as I'm a cheapskate and would probably not get the chance to meet each of you individually, buy yourselves a beer (or other drink of choice) 
and pretend it came from me.

thanks again,

jason.

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 04:57:30PM +0800, Jason wrote:
> greetings all.
> 
> the hard drive in my laptop has decided to die (this is the laptop's second hard drive - the first failed in a similar fashion) and I need to return 
> the hard drive for warranty purposes, but won't get a new drive until they confirm the hard drive is b0rked.
> 
> I want to dd the hard drive to create a backup image and store that on another machine, then, once I get the new hard drive, restore that image so 
> the computer won't realise anything has happened.
> 
> can anyone recommend a distro that I can boot from a cd which will allow me to ftp the backup image into some form of temporary FS, either on 
> the drive or in memory, which I can then restore using dd?
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> jason.
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