Originally Posted By: wfaulk



You can also download a trial version of Symantec Ghost to see if that would work better than the other cloners.


Thanks Bitt,

I tried Ghost first, but the free demo does not offer cloning!

I can't understand though why the cloned drive would work for a while and then stop with no apparent changes. If I reconnect the original drive and leave the new drive attached, I can still access the files on the new drive, it just no longer boots. No amount of fiddling manually or using the recovery console with boot.ini,mbr, boot partitions, etc. will make it boot again once it gives me the flashing cursor.


I'm downloading Ubuntu now over a slow 768K connection so eventually I'll try yours and Mark's suggestions.

Thanks,
Stu
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