Can I image an OLD computer running MS-DOS 4.0

[engineerguy3809]

I searched a bit, but didn't see a forum posting on this subject. Forgive me if I missed it.

Been user of IFW/IFL for a decade on my Windows & Linux boxes, but I have a head scratcher.
I have an old, OLD 386SX with two 5.25" floppy drives, parallel port and 9 Pin RS-232 port and VGA that ran MS-DOS 4.0 when I mothballed it decades ago. Hard drive is ancient MFM/RLL unit. My kids want me to fire it up for nostalgia. Everything worked fine when I "put to pasture" years ago.

My question:
Assuming it works and I can get it to boot, are there any methods for making a "safety" image of the existing hard drive maybe using IFD? I'm anticipating the kids will accidentally trash it by accident.
I could also use the default MS-DOS backup/restore IF I had a stack of good 5.25" floppy disks, but that isn't a real choice anymore. Hard Drive capacity is roughly 100 MB (remember when that was considered BIG??)
Even if I installed a RS-232 to USB adapter, the BIOS & MS-DOS won't boot IFD/IFW from Serial Ports.

[TeraByte Support]

The latest versions of IFD require Pentium Pro or better processor. So it would probably crash if run on the system, but if not, it would work.

You could put the HDD in another system if you had a controller it would work on.