"Kristian Ukkonen" wrote in message
...
... How about using Norton Partitio[n]Magic to make a copy
of your harddisk partitions to a new harddisk.....

Discontinued:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PartitionMagic

I used to use Norton's Ghost 2003 to back up the C: drive.

Seagate and Western Digital offer free versions of Acronis TrueImage which
can save and restore images of the C: drive to the same or another hard
drive. You can't just copy the drive Windows boots from.

The Seagate version needs to find at least one Seagate or Maxtor drive on
the system, I think WD is the same. I run the Seagate one on a laptop that
has a Samsung internal HDD, with a Seagate USB drive connected to enable the
program.

jsw