I have used the software that you mention (EZ-Drive) and love it. It is
from Microhouse and it works better than all the Powerquest utilities put
together. And it is free with the prchase of the drive. I went and paid
for Drivecopy, partition magic, and more.
Ron
>The Western Digital 3.2 gb UDMA drive that I got last Dec. with my
>little P5 system is failing. WD sez a replacement is on the way.
>The system fails to boot about 70% of the time. Ragamuffin Vagabond
>Gypsys such as myself, of course, never ever maintain backups.
>
>I'm running NTWS 4.0 SP3 and I've got lots of important software
>and data that I need to recover. The existing drive has 3 NTFS
>partitions. I'd like to have only 1 on the replacement drive (also
>NTFS).
>
>A first-level techie at WD said their EZ-Drive program would work.
>Anybody used it for this kind of thing? XCOPY with certain
>switch settings would also work? Other suggestions are welcome.
>TIA.
>
> Zalut,
> David