Karl Townsend fired this volley in
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I've used a disk clone program to clone fresh installs of XP with all
my shop software at least six times now. An old hard disk on eBay is
cheap insurance. if one of the shop 'puters get flakely or even
questionable, I toss in a new drive. Takes less than 10 minutes.

Karl



Karl

It's even cheaper in the long run to buy a 1TB external drive, and split
it up into partitions the size (or larger) of your various hard drives.
Then use Drive Image XML to create exact sector images of each computer
in those partitions.

When a failure occurs, you can buy another drive exactly like the
original in the PC, or anything larger, create a new partition, and use
DIX to put the bootable image on it.

LLoyd