** Reply to message from Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:17:27 -0400 Harry, before you proceed just make sure that the current version of TrueImage actually works for you (if, indeed, TrueImage is the program that will transport you -- I believe that was Kari's initial suggestion). I had TrueImage 10, and basically liked it although you could not extract individual files to the specified directory -- it always put them at the specified location in a "Drive(X)" directory, and then recreated the directory tree there instead of where you directed the files to go. Acronis told me to upgrade to overcome this bug. I upgraded, and TI 11 (or whatever the latest version is called) crashes my Vista box every time I try to use it. I wake up in the morning with a frozen computer -- I have to pull the plug and restart. It is incredibly buggy, IMO -- nearly unuseable. I'm not the only person who feels this way. But maybe it's just me ... If you are restoring a whole partition, then TrueImage 10 worked pretty well. I successfully used it to restore an entire machine several times. You can, indeed, put in a brand new drive as long as it has identical disk geometry to the old one -- which basically means, same manufacturer and model. If you use a different (e.g. larger) drive, it can still be done, but it will not work out of the box. You need to understand how boot sectors and disk geometry works. This is very very technical stuff, and not for the faint of heart. I've done this several times also, and a disk repair utility like DiskPatch can be a huge help (DIY Data Recovery in the Netherlands -- Google it). Lastly, you are aware, I'm sure, that cloning your old drive may simply reproduce the problems you had before on your new installation -- aye what? ----------------------------- Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxxxx -----------------------------