HOW TO MAKE AN IMAGE OF MAIN DRIVE

How to save data from a failed boot drive. I have a 20” iMAC that is about five years old and have worked flawlessly until about two weeks ago when the Main Drive partition started to fail. I used the Disk Utility in an attempt to verify and repair the drive to no avail. The error message advised me to reformat the drive. Finally the OS (Mountain Lion) would not even recognize the unit.
The Apple tech checked the unit and said my hard drive had failed and had to be replaced. They replaced the original 320Gb Western Digital Intel, WD3200AAJS, with a new 500GB drive.
In my attempt to retrieve as much data as possible from the old drive I purchased a “Thermaltake” external hard drive docking station. I can now see the old drive and tried again to verify and repair the unit to no avail.
I can copy data but was warned by the Disk Utility that I would not be able to change or delete any data.
I have an external Toshiba 500GB USB drive with 397.74 GB free. The data on the main partition of the old hard drive is 209.25 GB of OS X, application and data.
I need to know what is the best method to back up all data so it can be restored after the startup partition of the old drive have been reformatted.
Any advice will be appreciated.
Cwashinjr

Thanks aBrody, It took me some to get back to this problem seeing I had a workable new HD with OSX. But the data was still on the old drive.I did get most of the date off by copying individual folders. Than God the drive didn't fail. But I lost information enbeded in such application like iPhoto, iMovies, contacts, etc. Every time I tried to access these application from the old drive they came up empty. So the only photos and movies I could recover was the one I had physically placed in a different folder, not the default folder for that application.
Thanks for your help.
Now I have to set up old drive by partitationing and formatting it. I will only use it, for temp storage and with items that I can affort to loose, just incase itfails again.
Cwashinjr

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