On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 3:18 AM, cdb wrote: > Note biased writing here. > > So long as the motherboard and RAM are not being touched, you can clone > your drive to a new one. > > Not free, but I would suggest you look at Acronis Disk director or if you > want to make images (for recovery purposes) of drives look at True Image > 2012 which will also clone. > > However, I'm an MVP on the Acronis forum, so am biased. There are other > software offerings out there both free and paid for. I haven't tried the > free ones, but other paid ones are Paragon (who I believe do a free > version) and O&O Software. > > The Acronis ones will resize the partitions to match the new drive size i= f > you wish, either automatically or you can choose. > > If you have any questions on the Acronis stuff, send me an email off list= .. > I am Colin B on the Acronis forum. > > Colin > Thank you for the reply. Saved me much time. I have Paragon partition manager and Acronis True Image. I'll use Paragon to clone the drive, it should be able to do it. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .