Is there a way of creating an image from a bootable usb stick

I would like to create an image from a hard drive, but most software for this requires to be installed (on windows)

I would like to attach two hard-drives and a usb stick, and create and copy the image of one HD onto another, without having windows running.

Does anyone know of a usb image, or maybe a ubuntu distro that could do this from a usb stick?

thanks

From serverfault Daniel

• Windows PE with a Symantec Ghost executable (ghost32.exe) does it very nicely and it's really easy to make it boot from a USB drive; I've used it quite some times.

  Chris S : +1, I use WinPE all the time, really a slick tool.
  From Massimo

• Actually nearly ANY linux based bootable USB system will do this job at a basic level using dd or other disk management and copy tools. Seriously, there are dozens of good options because these tools are usually pretty generic.

  Also something to consider is UBCD ... no need to mess with USB if you have a bootable CD handy.

  From Caleb