From: "Gary Britt" 

Thanks for the review Glenn.  I'm sold.

Gary

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:4319c27a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> A TRUE WINNER!!!
>
> I had tried multiple times with Ghost 200x to clone my existing HD to a
new
> one, just to upgrade to a larger drive.  Multiple "No Go" when done.
Either
> the drive wouldn't boot (black screen after the OS Select screen, or if
the
> machine did boot, the OS complained that the drive was miss-configured (I
> cylinders, etc) and everything was at risk, and I needed to format and
> re-install.  Very frustrating.
>
> Bought Acronis.
> Bought an external USB2/2.5" HD enclosure.
>
> Mounted the new drive in the enclosure, connected it, made sure it was
> accessible, installed Acronis, ran it, selected the option to clone
existing
> drive, manually set net partition size, said "do it".  It said that it
> required a reboot/restart to run, so I though, "This ain't going to work,
as
> the external drive is on a Cardbus USB2 card no on the motherboard, but
> let's give it a go".  Let it do it's thing, rebooted into command mode,
> Acronis fired up, saw the externally Cardbus connected drive, and happily
> clones, resized the drive, moving everything over.  When it was done, it
> said hit any key to shutdown.  Did so, swapped the drive from the external
> to the internal position of the laptop, rebooted.....Acronis again fired
up
> in command mode, did a little last phase "tweak" to the
drive, and then
> booted properly and cleanly into XP Pro, like it was supposed to.
>
> In My opinion, this works light years better than any version of Ghost
I've
> used, period.  A definite "thumbs up, five star rating".
>
>
> --
>
> Glenn M.
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:42f14549$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Anyone have any experience with this tool?
> >
> > I'm ready to move away from Ghost, and Partition Magic is no longer an
> > option, now that Symantec has gobbled them up.
> >
> >
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/features-imaging.html
> >
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> >
> > Glenn M.
> >
>
>

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