Failed Drive, how to clone

My hard drive is failing in my iMac emc2389. It has bad sectors.
The computer will boot but locks up and becomes unresponsive. I do not have the option to install backup software to this computer to clone the drive. I do not have a backup.
I do have access to other computers though and have already removed the drive from the computer. I need a bootable solution so that I can clone my drive to a new drive. I tried using clonezilla but it failed.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

CarbonCopyClone ($40 download).
SuperDuper has a free version that will clone but does not have all the bells and whistles of CCC paid.
But my concern is that your clone may not be valid if you make it using the drive that is failing. *I would* find a way to boot from an external drive by installing the OS on it, then close the drive as if it were *just data*. Else you may be cloning something that is self-destructing underneath you.
And that clone woul be suspect, in my opinion. I would just use that clone for referecne, not to copy back.
Sorry if I sound not as hopeful as you would like, but this is my view of the situation.
Here is reading ... best done an a different system than your mac ... https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3045

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*one internal Western DIgital 400 GB 7200rpm SATA drive. this holds my photoshop image files, but not my user folder.(This WD drive turns out to cause the G5 to hang up occasionally, requiring a re-boot; to avoid this, i recently learned, i can connect it with a host card adapter [see below].)
*two 500 GB external firewire drives
*two 300GB external USB drives
*I have 2.25 GB of RAM, but I'm about to buy 2 more GB to max out at 4GB.
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What follows is a combination of suggestions I have received about what I could do and my speculation about how I could do it. Please see my Questions, embedded in the lines below: I'd be very grateful for any amendments or directions you can offer on this topic.
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Drive C: old Seagate 80GB drive, in external enclosure: disk designated for running the Photoshop Application? How would I set this up? any pitfalls to watch out for? should i partition this drive, or leave the whole thing for Photoshop? or is it better to run photoshop off Drive D?
Drive D: old WD 400 GB Drive: second scratch disk? Storage disk? Both storage and scratch disk? how large should an empty volume on this disk be in order to be useful as a scratch disk? volume 1 or volume 2? if i run the Photoshop Application off of this drive, how large should the volume for that be? should it be volume 1, the faster, outside volume, leaving volume 2 for scratch disk space? or vice versa?
External Firewire and USB drives: i guess i'll just use them for storage/archiving and extra backup? or am i much safer buying more SATAs and Enclosures? or are the external firewire and USB drives plenty safe (so long as i double-back up), since i'll only power them up for the data transfer, and then power them back down?
Given that the large Photoshop files are not in my User folder, does it matter whether i keep the User folder (with its MS Word docs and a bunch of PDFs and so on) on my OS volume, "volume A1"? would it speed things up when I'm using photoshop if i moved the Users folder to another drive? what if i'd like to play iTunes while also working on photoshop? my iTunes music folder (with all the song data) is already on an external firewire drive. but the iTunes Library and iTunes application are, of course, in my User folder, which is on the OS drive. would moving the Users folder to another drive make much difference when i use photoshop and iTunes simultaneously?
But I wonder whether it makes sense to be using volume A2 on Drive A as a backup drive: wouldn't it make more sense to back up my working files to two external drives that can be traded out, one on-site and one off-site, back and forth (not so convenient when one of the backup drives is internal!)? and after all, why would i devote a 400GB volume to the task of backing up another 400GB volume that will never be more than half full? I need to leave a WorkDisk/ScratchDisk half empty for efficient use, but i can back up that 200GB of working files on a 200GB volume, right? so for a backup drive, I might as well use a slow, inexpensive external USB drive that will only be tuned on for backup and will then stay powered off, a drive that's easily transportable on and off site, right? or am i misunderstanding something?
by the way, what backup software do you recommend for backing up back and forth between Drive A and Drive B? I've been using Carbon Cpy Cloner. do you recommend that? or something that does more archiving of progressive states of data?
Thank you for any help you can offer!
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Mark Woods
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