Thank you.
I have a new Dell 5160 and would like to clone the included 20Gb drive to a 60gb drive with xp home.
I have :
1) another XP computer
2)a usb2.0 2.5" box which works fine
3)Partition magic 84)Drive image 7
5)a reasonable technical background.
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Partial Success:
I partitioned the 60GB drive to 2 main active NTFS partitions, c (17gb) and D (40 gb). I copied all the files directly from the Dell c drive to new C. It booted fine and windows installed.
I was able to copy the files from the Dell utility drive (31.2Mb) and the Dell restore drive (3gb) to hidden partitions I created using Drive image.
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The problem is as follows:
1)Partition magic shows the restore drive as concurrent DOS/Cmos and I have no idea how to do this so it is bootable using F12
2)Same deal for the dell utility drive.
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Should be a snap if you what you are doing, but I don't. Any ideas vastly appreciated.

teacher wrote:
> If it helps here is a screen shot of the info from partition magic
> regarding the original drive from dell when hooked up externally:

No, it doesn't. In fact, messages with attachments are very likely to be
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Also, posting with a real email address is also pretty silly. I hope, for
your sake, that address is either a throw-away, or you have a system like
Fort Knox. If you receive any messages, purporting to be from MS, with
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