Had a 20g HDD that was going belly-up ( XP Home) and wanted to save everything and clone in as simple matter as possible. Found this to be better and faster than Norton Ghost. No boot disk needed.
"TrueImage" took a snapshot and then cloned it to the 200g drive without having to extend partitions or reload any drivers. Was impressed with the simplicity!
All programs worked in full, no lost reg files, no lost or corrupted data.
May not be the answer for you, maybe woth checking out though (there is a 15 day free trial download).
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