making a copy of the $MFT file?

[SilentZero]

I am looking for a way to make a copy of the MFT file on Windows Vista for some offline parsing. Has anyone done this or can point me in the right direction? Thanks

 

[Nothinman]

ntfsclone from the Linux NTFS project has an option to just dump the metadata from a filesystem, no clue if it actually runs in Windows though.