Stef Mientki, Nate Duehr and w d myrick (combined messages) wrote:
>>> Acronis True Image is very good it will make a copy of the disk you want to
>>> make an image of even if you boot from that disk.
>>> It is the best I have ever used.. Cost is about $30.00  US.
>>>       
>> Ditto that.  Acronis wipes the floor with Norton Ghost.
>>
>> They have various products for imaging, etc... all work well and RIGHT 
>> the first time.
>>     
> and it's free for a month,
> especially when creating a diskimage from one disk to a larger disk.
> Perfect !
>   

To recall the original problem, my harddisk is showing signs of wanting 
to fail, and I wanted to replace it with a new, bigger disk.  The 
question was what might be  the best way to clone the old one to the new 
one.  Following the above advice, I used Acronis in  the "automatic" 
cloning mode to copy the old disk to the new disk (the old disk is 40GB 
and the new disk is 120GB).  The documentation said that the partition 
sizes would proportionally increase but that otherwise everything would 
be the same.  When I ran it, it found some errors on the old disk, which 
I told it to ignore (what else could I do?) but claimed to have 
successfully completed the cloning.

However, the new disk will not boot up.  It just sits there, displaying 
the single word: "GRUB."   (This is a dual-boot disk, with both Windows 
XP and Linux (FC4) on it, and of course Grub is the boot loader).  So 
Acronis didn't do it for me.  :-(

This is not a gripe (although it may sound like it :-)  Just reporting 
that Acronis didn't do the trick.  My guess would be that it has to do 
with the errors reading the old disk. 

John
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