I've got a thinkpad X31 if that helps. I'm thinking dd which I have never used but I'm concerned that on restore of partions 'doze will fail to boot if I don't get everything - I mean everything backed up in the correct manner.
dd will work but take ages.
ghost4unix or partition image are your two choices there I think.
on the windows/dos side ghost is good, however it can break lilo a bit. It will probably do the best job however.
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