I neglected to mention. If your original drive has problems (i.e. bad/failing sectors), you may want to look at an alternative such as ddrescue (http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/). I have successfully used ddrescue to recover a dead floppy on two different occasions. Of course it can do the same for a hard drive. Again, run from a live CD environment so find a live CD which has it installed, or install it in the live environment after booting up (either by getting it online, or downloading it to a flash drive first and then booting to your live CD, mounting the thumb drive and installing ddrescue from it). Jacques B.
