It's quite magic - does the whole job. When it's done, disconnect the old drive, plug in the new one and away you go. Keep the old drive for a week or two, just as insurance. However, I haven't had a failure yet. As I said, only thing is, the free version won't copy a drive to a smaller one, ie you can't clone a 19.95Gb drive onto a 19.90Gb drive. 'Course, you need to FDisk and format the target drive drive first - but no need to format it with system files, ie 'format C /s'. Just 'format C' will do fine. Ian Porter Computer Guys Arrowtown New Zealand [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alice Blankenship" 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] clone > Hi Ian!...I have a question about cloning....when this is done to a > computer does it clone the programs as well as the user files that I have > put on the disk....or do I still have to install all my programs again? > Alice Blankenship The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along with our NOSPIN Power Linux CD... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml