From: "Glenn Meadows" 

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".


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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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