Cool, it was more me getting confused with something I read yesterday
You have two good free choices in the form of EASEUS or puppylinux .. you will though need a way of attaching both drives to the laptop at the same time with these two programs as it copies one drive directly to another (resizing the partition if the drives are dissimilar sizes)
Ghost (or similar as ghost is chargable) can copy a drive to a network, DVD or other off-laptop device as a form of compressed file which can then be used to re-install the data on the original or other drive.
The first option is simplest (EASUS or Puppy) but as stated you will need a HDD caddy to work it.
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