From: "John Beamish" 

I probably should have tried that but I didn't.

I Ghost-cloned the boot partition
     From:  old drive, no driver letter, 31MB;  (MBR, I assume.)
     To:  new drive3, no drive letter, 31MB).

I Ghost-cloned the data
     From:  old drive, C:\, 20GB
     To:  new drive, no drive letter, ~120GB

I did that in separate cloning operations.  The cloning was successful.

The problem came in my earlier attempts.  I had partitioned the new drive
into 4 partitions:
1.  31 MB (for the MBR) no drive letter. 2.  ~50GB no drive letter/with a
drive letter 3.  ~50GB no drive letter/with a drive letter 4.  ~20GB no
drive letter/with a drive letter

First, I couldn't see the any of the new drive's partitions (when they had
drive letters) in My Computer or Explorer from the John account.  In all
other cases, I could.

The _only_ thing that is different about the John account is that (can't
remember why it ended up this way on the original drive) the "home
folder" or "home directory" (under c:\documents and
settings") has a period in the folder name (John.AB123456-C).  At one
point I debated renaming the folder but figured that might just cause more
problems than it solved.


"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:3fa723b8{at}w3.nls.net...
> John,
>
> Did you just try cloning the whole drive straight over, partition for
> partition?  (I wiped the head of this thread, so I don't recall exactly
what
> the drive structure was).
>
>

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