While i'm on the subject of being a full blown nerd in the last couple of days, i have just bought a new sata hdd and i want to clone whats on my old hdd.

only thing is, i have the new sata already partitioned and stuff on it, and the program i have now called Partition Magic will only clone to a new drive and will erase everything, which i am definitely not for..

Anyone got any suggestions please ?

Thanks Muchly.

Pete

just copy the stuff of it you want... simple enough

I want all of it, including windows, the boot sectors the lot..

this is my last go of having a validated genuine copy of windows xp, so i have to keep it all.

if you want to clone windows then you will have to lose what you already put onto the disk
I use Clone Genuis

ok, so no other way of keeping it to 1 partition ?

Not true? I am using Acronis TrueImage Home and it works sweet

Norton Ghost works a treat as well.

Have also used Acronis which works just as well

okay excellent thanks guys.. i'll look into this Acronis one, if that doesn't, i'll go pick up another sata drive and use that..

Thanks.

Got my failed hdd replaced today, got home, reformatted and fdisk'd it so shes all sweet, and i have just used Acronis to clone the old 40 gig, and it's running so good.

Thank you very much guys for recommending the program.. i am so happy everything has worked.

Pete.