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joeH:

+1 for Acronis as well. 

Universal restore is on the business version I believe.  I just use the home version which does not have this feature.

Dexter:

Acronis trueimage and disk director suite, two blinding programs.

On my own cab I have a 40 gig hard drive split into 2x20 gig partitions. When I had everything working the way I wanted it within the first partition, I cloned it to the second. I also took an image onto another hd in case of a mechanical fail. If anything goes wrong with the main partition itself I just copy the second partition back over the first and I'm back to the point I originally cloned from. Simple.

Kayden:

Since you have XP handy, try running NTBACKUP (from the run box) and point it to the partition with 98 on it.  It should work... I think.

Or give the trial of True Image... a try.

orion:

You could give Macrium Reflect a try. It's probably not as good as Acronis (which I have never tried) but its free.

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

Bender:

anyone know how to clone a laptop drive Can you do it in a usb enclosure?

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