Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > You are better off using something like parted > to copy a partition. Actually, I did try using gparted to copy the NTFS partition, and although this seemed to work, the resulting Windows did not run properly. I also tried Partition Magic with much the same result. I guess I should have looked more closely into official Windows methods of copying a Windows XP partition to a new disk; Bill must have thought of that ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland