Interesting. The utility that came with the Western Digital drive merely did a file-copy.

Which is a problem. See, it only copied the long file names, and did not preserve the corresponding short file names.

The system works, except for little things like... All the entries in the system registry that point to "c:\progra~1\micros~2" are now swapped with the ones that point to "c:\progra~1\micros~4". (In that example, it was "Microsoft Visual Studio" and "Microsoft Office" that got swapped.)

So I have to decide whether to bin the whole thing and start over with a true sector copy, or if I should just continue to try to repair every instance of configuration entries messed up by mismatched short file names.

I think I've nailed most of them, but I'll always have that uncertainty I'd missed one somewhere...