Anyone use Seagate Disk Wizard for Cloning?

[wamaruna]

I am having a devil of a time trying to clone my Maxtor 80GB drive to a new
Seagate 120GB drive. Running XP Pro with SP2. Both drive recognized in
BIOS. Maxtor has 20GB primary partition, plus extended partition that has 4
other logical drives that use up the balance of the space. All partitions
formatted NTFS.

I first tried cloning with Acronis True Image 8. It seemed to work, but
when I yanked out the Maxtor and set the Seagate as master on the primary,
XP would not boot. System acted as though it could not see boot sector.
When I rehooked up Seagate as slave and Maxtor as master and booted to
Maxtor, in XP I could see all the files on the Seagate.

So I wiped the Seagate and tried CopyWipe from Terabyte Unlimited
(BootItNG). It failed, saying it could not find the target location (the
Seagate - even though the BIOS sees it fine.) I then tried Maxtor MaxBlast
3, but it terminated under Windows with an error message. FInally, I tried
Seagate's Disk Wizard. Well, I almost tried it. The default is to copy
everything to a single partition. Don't want that! I then used the option
where I defined each new partition, size-wise, and software said it was
ready to go, but I chickened out, because it was not clear if it would copy
each old partition to its respective new partition.

Has anyone used DiskWizard this way with success? Did it copy each
partition's contents in turn to the new drive? Why can't this be simple?!!
I'm an experienced computer user and builder, but this is driving me nuts.
I even tried to revisit the True Image, intending to use FixBoot and FixMBR
off the recovery console if need be, but I noticed now that True Image wants
to expand only the four logical partitions, not the primary, to divvy up the
added 40GB.

 

[salsasam85]

I always use Norton Ghost. Its an amazing program that has always
worked for me on any disk, any partition, any OS. Try it!

 

[Rod Speed]

I always use Norton Ghost. Its an amazing program that has
always worked for me on any disk, any partition, any OS. Try it!

And it costs peanuts as part of SystemWorks Pro 2003 off ebay.

Gotta be Pro, it isnt included in the standard SystemWorks 2003.

 

[Nicholas D Richards]

I then tried Maxtor MaxBlast
3, but it terminated under Windows with an error message.

I am not sure I understand what you did with Maxblast 3.

You did create a floppy bootable disk by running Maxblast3.exe?

You did boot from the floppy diskette?

What was the error message under windows and under what circumstances.

I have used Maxblast to do what you are trying to do.