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Just because the drive doesn't boot does not mean that which is on it isn't bootable. That is, were the drive connected to your machine and that machine was booted off another device (say an emergency CD that has SD! - see BootCD) you could clone from the drive to the machine.
Disclaimer: I'm not sure SD! would work by simply including it via BootCD. You might have to do some extra steps involving creating an image from a device that is basically what would be on a BootCD but with the support SD! needs to function and then burning a CD from that image. Anyone done such?
Myself, I have a basic OS X install with SD!, DiskWarrior, etc. on my iPod. I do daily SmartUpdates to a bootable external but do not always have it with me.
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