>> That's operator error then.  I've used it since it came out
 >> and it works great both personally and professionally.

 JH> what do you mean operator error? it's so easy there's nothing a person
 JH> could screw up. i used it years ago so maybe it improved.

Right.. I don't know what could go wrong. Most of these  
programs steer the user to the "next" necessary step (and  
warnings if necessary), so that there is really no way to mess  
up.


 JH> most people who talk about having images are full of shit anyways and end
 JH> up losing "everything in a crash."

I've used DriveImageXML in the past to make images of my own  
drives (most under 200GB at the time) and for other people.  
Restorations to a new HDD went without a hitch when a suspect  
HDD needed to be replaced.  The images could even be searched  
for a particular file if necessary - which I have done for  
people's backups.

BUT.. now, I see that the same product has a "Disk to Disk"  
option!  So.. I might give that a go. All that is required is  
to establish the destination partions in advance, and I can  
probably do that with Windows Disk Management.

The SATA cable arrives tomorrow.
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