In a message dated 4/27/04 5:12:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time, vbalbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: This capability has existed for years and in fact, was one of the main purposes of Ghost. As I recall the main purpose of Ghost is to backup your HDD. The last version of Ghost I have is ver.4 and that doesn't provide any way of handling anything in excess of the image. You drop a 20 gig image onto a 120 gig drive and hope. There is no need to use an image file to move an OS to a new drive. There are several applications designed to do that job...... I use XXCopy. The guy that posted the problem used a Ghost image and now has more problems than I would attempt to solve using an image file. If he has no choice it becomes a different matter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. -- Pete Seeger"